All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this.

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.

Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.

Description is the color in the canvas of your story.

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.

Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself.

Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.Sit down, and write.

All great writers share one thing in common:They finished their books.

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.

If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book.

The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them.

With God, there is no such thing as a lost cause.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

We certainly do not regard it as right that the citizens of a large country should dominate those of a small adjoining country merely because they are more numerous.

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

I think stand is better now than it's ever been. I think it's the greatest time ever to do standup comedy.

A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.

In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter

I don't want anyone to tell me something.

I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.