Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.

A poem is a spider web Spun with words of wonder, Woven lace held in place By whispers made of thunder.

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

Close your eyes and look inside, A mirror shines within; To find where you are going, First see where you have been.

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.

STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE

When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.

They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch.

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.

Fight against illiteracy.

When you slander someone [talk negatively about people], you earn a debit in your account and that person will earn a credit. Who would do these kinds of business?

Of all the passions fear weakens judgment most.

I'm a living sunset, lightning in my bones.

Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him - and he will remember it - the reason why.

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

I like to make money, I like to have nice things. But I love to act, I love to tell stories.