Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.

My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product. Keeping a journal is not a bad idea either.

Now smile a real smile for me so I know you're not suffering inside.

When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better

Sometimes all you can do is say, 'Wow.'

Didn't it make sense that after something horrible happens, something better should follow?

(His) sadness grew; it became a rock inside him, pulling him down. He carried the sadness everywhere, morning, noon, and night. It hurt to breathe.

Today was a difficult day.Tomorrow will be better.'-Mr. Slinger

She wuz depressed. Yeah, she wuz on stuff for it. Like me. Sometimes it jus' takes you over. It's an illness, " she said, although she made the words sound like "it's uh nill

Fate. You could never anticipate it.

It's all positive energy from me, man.

Over my career, I think I've shown can make a big pitch.

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.

I've done radio interviews about this movie [42]. I feel I'm a part of this movie, since I knew Jackie Robinson. I was at his first game.

Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.

Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.