For years I dreamed of having the sort of massive oak slab that would dominate a room...

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.

Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!

Creating a better futureRequires creativity in the present.

Even though fairy tales are fictitious, they made us believe that dragons exist and you can overcome them.

If you devote three to six hours of your time every day to practicing anything repeatedly, in the next five years, you will become one of the best in the world.

Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

The love of reading can be contagious.

The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.

When you're feeling lonely and no one is around Remember to look inside yourself and a best friend will be found