Be daring. Better to fail spectacularly then stay safe and achieve meh. -- Anonymous

Be positive. Believe that you will succeed. See it, go for it. No matter what the odds, most of the battle is inside your own head. -- Bob Mayer

You only fail if you stop writing.RAY BRADBURY

Writing a full length novel is very much like driving a car with snakes in your pants—you just never know what’s going to happen. -- James Scott Bell

If something went wrong, he’d pay the price. He couldn’t allow any innocent people to be hurt this time. From HEAR NO EVIL

It is better to be respected by few than to be feared by all

I've swallowed fish-eyes wholelike an endoscope.I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin. Felt like a shark eating another shark, inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark.

Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

What you think is a setback, is really a set-up for a greater comeback!

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.