An author simply comes up with a hypothetical question, and then spends eight months and 80 thousands words to come up with a believable lie to answer it

Adversity is a mirage. People, situations, and relationships sometimes change for the worst but inevitably clear a path for far better replacements. The continued journey will always find bliss.

Remain assiduously stubborn with your positive thinking, sooner or later the world around you will give up and let you have your way

A fiction writer is nothing more than the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how many people their work entices to relocate

When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life

There is never a restless night for the dark soul. They sleep well within a destiny sealed and accepted in trade for the spoils of the earth

Venture deep into the wilderness of lost thought to the point that you physically shiver with apprehension, and there you will find creativity

Thank God for all of your short comings because it gives the people who don’t belong in your life something to hang their insecurities on as they drift away in a cloud of delusional perfection.

Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours

There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two.

Emotions retain a timeless photographic memory. Good or bad, you can never forget how a person makes you feel.

Forgiveness is a promise not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sin against them.

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

Almost everyone is bald. And thats because of what they eat.

Our EMF meter was jumping off the charts. We found her alarm clock was causing crazy electro-magnetic fields around it. We spent $22.99 on a nice digital clock, and she never saw an apparition again.

Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.

...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.

One of the things I'm best at is modeling. I find someone who is best at something I want to learn. Then I model them, and learn it myself. Then, when I've proven it to myself, I teach it to others.

The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.

I think a big part of being a success is confidence. Just look at me, I know I'm successful, and I am.