Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

A map is not a journey.

But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

Everyone has choices to make no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..

Solitude helps you to see life the way it is.

The danger of venturing into uncharted waters is not nearly as dangerous as staying on shore, waiting for your boat to come in.

I believe in angels because the Bible says there are angels

The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.

Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.

Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

Creative and action are synonymous. You can't be creative. Without taking action.

It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at mommy and daddy, running the show.