If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.

If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?

Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with.

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

Let your thoughts and intentions always be forgiving and loving so that you may bring true peace to mankind.

That’s how it felt – that the loss of him had a life of its own. I lived with it as I could have lived with him. Some nights it was quiet and sometimes it pounded on my door.

Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.

I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.

Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons.

My friends and I love having girls' nights in. We're hardly ever all in the same city, but when we're finally able to hang out, we make the most of it.

Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC