Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A writer always writes.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

In storms look for rainbows

In love's God-like breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.

I'm so miserable without you, it's almost as if you're here!

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

Every generation finds the drug it needs.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.