...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

A person with a big ego usually knows very little.

Why fight a battle alone when you can fight it victoriously with God on the lead?

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.

Jaguar — For men who'd like hand-jobs from beautiful women they hardly know.

Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road, turn around.

I hear you're supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I'm the queen. Your life will be nicer if I like you.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.

Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.