If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.

Life can only give you what you give back to it, and it all begins with the right attitude.

When you've got them by their wallets their hearts and minds will follow.

Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.

In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!

You can talk all day long, but if you don't do something, it's a waste.

Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.

I think kids love superheroes, and the more you can crowd into a story, the more excited they get.

Say I had been with a guy like Tom Brady, Peyton Manning or Drew Brees all of my career. Are you kidding me?