Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done.

As the saying goes, "Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them." Why would I want to keep my limitations?

Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.

Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes." (quoting Jack Gilbert)

[C]reative living is a path for the brave.

If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.

A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.

[There is a] quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.

And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence.

Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom.

It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!

Build roads never seen before. Build bridges never existed before. Build a society never lived before. It is all in your hands now.

Ah, well, when you explain it like that, it seems obvious, " said Mudge. "Of course, it always seems obvious once it's been explained.

But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.

They say if the warming trend continues, by 2015 Hillary Clinton might actually thaw out.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today.

Australian cattle dogs, are not like Labradors, where they just like to just sit around by the fire and get petted. They're working dogs, so they have a lot of energy, and they can drive you crazy.

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.