The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts.

Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.

Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.

Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.

You chose love and you lost.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

The opportunities for enjoyment in your life are limitless. If you feel you are not experiencing enough joy you have only yourself to blame.

Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace

Some people do drugs, I buy shoes!

"I would like to apologize" may sound like an apology, but it is no more an actual apology than saying "I would like to lose weight" makes you suddenly slimmer.

Never be disagreeable just because you disagree.

It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings

[On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old.

I think the early years, the first decade of your life, is the most formative in a way.