Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

A map is not a journey.

But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

A hardness to change reveals a hardness of heart.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

I had a dream that I would be here this week, receiving something from the president, but I thought it would be the front door key.

We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.

I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.

I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.

Humor is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.