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.

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.

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

I don't want to move out of bed." "I don't want to move out of bed either. Let's live here.

Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.

In life things are only free after you've paid for them.

What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

I'd like to be remembered for being a good-hearted soul that left this planet better than I found it.

the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.

With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.

We'll never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it.

I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots.