The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

Of course, in all magic tricks theres a secret.

I imagine that people see me as they would see me if I were the man that I want to be.

According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.