By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.

Nature like a kind and smiling mother lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

History takes time. History makes memory.

President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.

It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

You can't make God move in your life, but you can make room for God to move in your life.

Mad with the love of a wife for her husband... sing for the Most High sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song. God plays His flute and we all dance along.