Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.

Three words for a writer: Make me care.

As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.

It’s a great day to write a best-seller.

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

I wear the writer pants in the family.

Do you remember the time, Mike, ” Jeremy laughed, “that you put a banana down your pants and walked up to the Palma-nator. It looked like you had one hell of a hard-on.

The best kind of day is a writing day

Caught red-handed for exclamation abuse.

There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.

Always using the same methods is not God’s way

Oh baby, your planet sounds like paradise but it just doesn't fly down here in the trenches.

Boys annoyed her. Girls annoyed her. She should have been a cat.

There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or I might not make it through this.

But trust me, it's best to face something head on, smash it, and move on with your life. Lingering and wondering, waiting and worrying... that kills you.

Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Only idiots die for an idea! Life is greater and infinitely more valuable than all the ideas!