Aside from a very select few, there are no overnight success stories. Most of the time that single step took a thousand miles to get to it.

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

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

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

The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way

I find it boring and a waste of time debating other people’s opinions, however challenging my own is always intriguing and there is where I inevitably discover growth.

Growth dwells not in standing one’s ground, anyone can do that. Personal growth comes from reaching past insecurities with a sincere effort to acquire an understanding that does not mirror your own.

When you are touched by a calling, answer on the first ring. As time passes the volume decreases until it is silenced forever by our allotted time.

The definition of brilliance is redoing failures different each time and expecting successful results.

When their eyes connected she tilted her head slightly…paused, and smiled. It was as if she needed to see him at a different angle to insure that her instant desire wasn’t a vanishing mirage

I think deeply and write feelings from my soul.

Libraries are place where one can find satisfaction through books by discovering more ideas

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.

To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.

Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.

sorrow must not be cultivated: it is a poor lifestyle choice.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.