Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A writer always writes.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Jesus, what a nuisance it was, being desperate to stay alive.

The true America is the Middle West and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.

Brother killing brother, father slaying son. From the looks of this old graveyard, hell nobody really won.

In the old days, you'd get credit if you would spend less money and have victory. That would be a good thing.

We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.