Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.

Never let reality get in the way of truth

YOU CAN'T TELL UNLESS YOU SHOW FIRST. ... Showing makes the telling more powerful because your senses and your mind are both engaged.

What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.

Songs are your best teachers. I try to learn something from every song I hear

I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.

His mind buzzed, excited by new possibilities."About Egg, Book 1 "Making it

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

I have never felt any pain that I can remember.

How many people could embrace such disturbing imagery?

I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time.

For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect that Canada is entitled to one story per season.

Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.