Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.

If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?

Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with.

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On termsLike these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.

Understanding is not absolutely final.What's now right could be wrong later.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

I naturally have some curves, like most women, just unfortunately not like most women in Hollywood. I'm only considered curvy in Hollywood. It's a weird town.

Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

I don't have the support inside Washington or even inside my own party.

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

It's a choice that you make and there's consequences. It's something you have to own.

The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.