My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.

when u stay behind ur children their confidence rise

What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business

I'm sure I'll know it by the time I'm 80.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.

Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

I had just sat down at a table with Star [Jones] and, bam, it just popped all over Star's shoes. Star was like, 'What is that!?' I said, 'My water broke!'

The key to anything in boxing and life is sticking to it. Never give up.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.