Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.

My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.

Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land.Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention

Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End

Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.

Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja.

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to ease those words onto the page.

U will have success where you diligently labor

One word love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day you won't be able to resist.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.

I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

Join me in standing up against any actual knowledge about guns. Let the CDC know they can take away our ignorance when the pry it from our cold dead minds.