Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

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.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.

It's a beautiful blessing that I get to help raise a man. And I want to show him as much as possible.

Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.

We have converted our wounds into a type of relationship currency that we use in order to control situations and people.

The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more elevated, but never as deep or long-lasting.

For a second, I'm afraid he's dying. I have to remind myself that I don't care.

I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.

God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.