Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility.

Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.

You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master.

The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.

You will not read voice on the page; you will hear it in your head.

It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way that real-life conversation seldom is.

We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page.

For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right.

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

It takes some strength to fight. It takes greater strength to choose not to fight.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Legacy: Supreme leaders determine where generations are going and develop outstanding leaders they pass the baton to.

He had left home one day, yesterday, and come home today, and the change was too much for him to bear. And this was why he could not go home all at once.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

If a job isn't worth dreaming about, it isn't worth having.

No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it.

You can't go and anticipate what it is that you want to see. You just have to be present. Be where you are.

Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.