Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over, just the way I'd love to have it.

Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a book... absolute heaven.

Having both a pet and a book...absolute heaven.

If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.

A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.

You don't have to make any decisions right now, " Colleen says. "But I'll tell you this. There's life after marriage."~Excerpt from "Mad Dog Justice

To find and enjoy profound happiness, learn from nature and emulate her stoic calmness.

You don't need to have the whole world in your hands in order to live a very fulfilled life.

My best score is 103 but I've only been playing for fifteen years.

Example is more powerful than precept.

your problem is that wanna better word for world

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

Our best people don't go into politics.

If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him.