Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

By writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty.

Teaching is bringing the news.

It's amazing when you see something on T.V. for years and then you go and see it in person. It's perspective is all different.

I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.

You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.

I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.

Christ's blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.

The more I see, the less I know.

I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.

I don't like what's going on with the executive compensation.