Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.

A poem is a spider web Spun with words of wonder, Woven lace held in place By whispers made of thunder.

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.

Close your eyes and look inside, A mirror shines within; To find where you are going, First see where you have been.

STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE

When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.

They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch.

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths.

I don't have all the answers. I have a lot of questions. And I have some basic principles.

When no one is looking, I swallow deserts and clouds and chew on mountains knowing they are sweet bones! When no one is looking and I want to kiss God, I just lift my own hand to my mouth.

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again against this rising tide of nationalism.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.