Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level.

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

We note our place with bookmarkersThat measure what we've lost.

On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.

Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.

Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself.

There is so much wonderful stuff and so many amazing people in this world.

Just because you need a quart of milk doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a whole cow.