You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories.

I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.

I raced through Killer Keepsakes and really loved it smart and interesting and entertaining.

You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.

Nothing is purely evil.

The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

If I could live my life over again, there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

The difference between those who do and those who don't is that those who don't believe it when they are told they can't.

Imagine Pulitzer prizefighting.

Dear mama, yo baby boys doing fine tell the homies I'm in heaven and they aint got hoods.