Linda Evans Shepherd has blessed many by her warmth and openness. She's not only a delightful person, but she encourages others as she shares her joy.

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

I would rather be disliked for who I am than to be respected for who I'm not.

If God inspires your writing, others will know because it will inspire them when they read it.

Good writing demands self-discipline and constant learning

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that I had to learn to see No-focus from the beginning.

You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

There is only one perfect road and that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you.