When you believe you've become the best writer you can be… you still aren’t.

Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.

Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.

Writing a novel is easy… writing checks is hard.

I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way.

Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.

My motto for creat

I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?

Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read and considered the things they wrote.

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and his medium.

Donald Trump is an awful loser.

It ain't the rain, the snow, the boss, the competition, the spouse, the money, the car, the job, or the kids - it's you! And it always has been.

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

Being the first to go to college in my family was a great thing, but it was also a source of guilt. I felt like almost a sellout going to college.

I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.