A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a book... absolute heaven.

Having both a pet and a book...absolute heaven.

If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.

Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over, just the way I'd love to have it.

Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.

A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.

You don't have to make any decisions right now, " Colleen says. "But I'll tell you this. There's life after marriage."~Excerpt from "Mad Dog Justice

Sometimes words aren't needed.

The art of betrayal has not taught me to be bitter, but to not so easily misplace trust.

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.

Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.

The only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong.

Our destiny is determined, not by what we possess, but by what possess us.

You have to fail and then get better. Then you have to fail again, and then get even better.

I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. The whole notion of how you build a company is fascinating." Steve Jobs