There is an awkward silence that overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of unknown but always desired.

A fiction writer is nothing more than the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how many people their work entices to relocate

When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life

Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours

Emotions retain a timeless photographic memory. Good or bad, you can never forget how a person makes you feel.

The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way

I find it boring and a waste of time debating other people’s opinions, however challenging my own is always intriguing and there is where I inevitably discover growth.

Growth dwells not in standing one’s ground, anyone can do that. Personal growth comes from reaching past insecurities with a sincere effort to acquire an understanding that does not mirror your own.

When you are touched by a calling, answer on the first ring. As time passes the volume decreases until it is silenced forever by our allotted time.

The definition of brilliance is redoing failures different each time and expecting successful results.

When their eyes connected she tilted her head slightly…paused, and smiled. It was as if she needed to see him at a different angle to insure that her instant desire wasn’t a vanishing mirage

I'd love to...but only with you.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

We are never the heroes of our own stories, unless we are lying. If we choose to count ourselves among the brave, we write ourselves as the villains we are, hoping for redemption.

My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!

The creators of kids' media had no idea they were leaving out that many female characters. They were in utter shock that the worlds they were creating were so bereft of female presences.

He that hath lands hath quarrells.

The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.

You gotta *be* country music - you can't just sing it.

I am at war with the obvious.