Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself.

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.

Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.

Description is the color in the canvas of your story.

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.

All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this.

Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.Sit down, and write.

All great writers share one thing in common:They finished their books.

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.

If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book.

The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them.

You can't get out of life alive, so you may as well have a good time.

Messianic Judaism is not Christianity.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.

I have also long held the belief that one's tears are a guide, that when something makes you cry, it means something. If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves