The truth is that most writers are needy.

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

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

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.

If we like a person, all his attributes will manifest within us. If we like a pickpocket, even his attributes will manifest within us.

Satan’s method has often been to imitate God.Satan is still using this form of deception, and often his representatives are being disguised as ministers of righteousness.

What's the feeling to be lost?? What's the feeling to be scared???

World peace is really inner peace within each individual mind.

[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life.

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels.

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!