Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.

hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.

Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound.

You can depend on God to provide for you.

Sometimes in life, things just fall in to my lap. I'm very blessed that way.

I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.

Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours.

Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.

The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.

We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.

I'm pretty sure JAY Z don't wanna rap right now.