Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one

Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.

The hard part is putting one word after another.

There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.

In order to reach our goals we sometimes need a plan B. Other times we go all the way through to plan Z.

Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.

A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane... ain't gonna get very far!

Sometimes the only thing you need to change in order to be successful is your attitude.

No success was won without enthusiasm and perseverance.

Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?

The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader.

I think style is very different from fashion. Fashion was what I went after when I was feeling incredibly insecure and monstrous on the inside.