My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.

I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.

My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.

There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

The forces of freedom and choice will always triumph against the forces of conformity and control.

Baby you don’t even know I’m falling apartIn your fun and games, You’ve stolen my heart.

Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.

We are now as I wished we could be then.

The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.

We all want to know what taxes we would pay under [Donald Trump] tax plan. That's a question.

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

Spahn and Sain and pray for rain.