TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.

Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.

Description is the color in the canvas of your story.

All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this.

Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself.

Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.Sit down, and write.

All great writers share one thing in common:They finished their books.

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.

If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book.

The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them.

weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be

If an angry bull is running toward you, and your pants become wet despite holding the red cloth, make sure the other side of the cloth is white.

The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.

Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.

Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential.

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.

These early decisions can foreclose many opportunities to reshape the patterns of development in a community so as to make it better and safer by reducing vulnerability to future disasters.

A sour religion is the devil's religion.

Also pay attention if a tree or whatnot says something about two bulls.

Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.