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

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.

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

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.

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.

i could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages

Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one.

What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus.

I've never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated.

I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.

I like coffee exceedingly.

Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don't lose it for anything. . . .

How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.

Why are my arms so weak? It's like I did that push-up last year for nothing!