Susan Howatch quotes:

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination.

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.

if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.

I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.

...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.

Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it's not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.