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

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.

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

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.

Maybe love at first sight isn’t what we think it is. Maybe it’s recognising a soul we loved in a past life and falling in love with them again.

Every experience is seen through your mind's eye, so when you change your mind you change your entire world.

With a strong faith in God and confidence in your abilities, who can dare to stop you?

The people who matter will recognize who you are.

Well, my smile's pretty hard to miss, considering I'm a gal who likes her lipstick-the redder the better.

Rock 'n' roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.

I had never worked in television before Freaks and Geeks, and New Girl is the first time since that Ive worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.

Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics.

Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.