David Eddings

I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

It's going to be hard to ever have a horse to replace Valegro. He is a professor. I think he read the dressage book and learnt it all before he ever did it.

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.