Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

They make me...they make me think of being stuck somewhere? I don't know, like weighted down, but then these patches...

I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

I think the complaint that I hear most often from kids, even kids who like to write is that don't know what to write about. A journal is a great source of story starters.

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)

E.Biscom is an Internet company that is diversified, not a diversified company that is trying out the Internet.

Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.

Consult duty not events.