Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.It’s about the writer you’re becoming while creating.

A dream is like a first draft. No one will ever see it but you.

Creativity bleeds from the pen of inspiration.

SUCCESS in WRITING occurs when your DREAMS are BIGGER than your EXCUSES.

If you surrender to your imagination, the story will write itself.

Writing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish.What matters is that you enjoy the journey.

Write for a cause, NOT APPLAUSEWrite to express, NOT TO IMPRESS.Writing isn’t just about being noticed…IT'S BEING REMEMBERED.

Manuscript rejections might tempt you to quit writing or querying. Don't.

Sadly, we can’t live forever. But we can write something that will.

You don't have INSOMNIA. You're a writer with an unfinished book!

Discipline is the bridge between a great idea and a completed novel.

It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.

We might be all alone in the world, en effet, but that doesn't mean we have to be lonely.

Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

I cannot live one day without love.

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.

Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.