By mastering character and plot, you give your book a fighting chance and withoutcharacter and plot, no book can survive.

Perfection should generally be avoided in a character. Real people, such as your readers, aren’t flawless and chances are they are not going to be able to fully identify with a character who is.

Characters are the lifeblood of anygood book.

They didn't understand what they were doing.I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.

When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.

Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.

Everyone still deserves to have their say.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts.

Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.