To write is human, to edit is divine.

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.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Tomorrow's Victory . . . Starts Today!

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

What one relishes, nourishes.

Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

fight hard, fight fair and persevere

Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.

I am grateful to be able to participate in the adult citation program where I will complete community service.

China is not I think a country which does not regulate, but there is a difference between the Chinese system and the Indian system.

I think water’s, like, a really important thing.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.