Three words for a writer: Make me care.

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.

As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.

It’s a great day to write a best-seller.

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

I wear the writer pants in the family.

Do you remember the time, Mike, ” Jeremy laughed, “that you put a banana down your pants and walked up to the Palma-nator. It looked like you had one hell of a hard-on.

Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.

The best kind of day is a writing day

Caught red-handed for exclamation abuse.

Liberate yourself from any mental captivity.

Suffering is a jealous and lonely state. It can't abide the company of anything else. It is greedy

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.

The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

I haven’t even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.

You're always a little surprised when something really takes off.