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

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

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

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.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

In Poland, nobody is arrested or persecuted for political reasons.

The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

I read books to read myself.

The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.