Didn't it make sense that after something horrible happens, something better should follow?

My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product. Keeping a journal is not a bad idea either.

Now smile a real smile for me so I know you're not suffering inside.

When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better

Sometimes all you can do is say, 'Wow.'

Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.

(His) sadness grew; it became a rock inside him, pulling him down. He carried the sadness everywhere, morning, noon, and night. It hurt to breathe.

Today was a difficult day.Tomorrow will be better.'-Mr. Slinger

Avid readers are the most authentic creatures on the face of the earth, and their hearts and minds are not for sale at any price. "Mysteries for the Inspired Traveler" Goodreads blog

The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.

In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a writer is most terrifying!

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

I really don't want to sound like overly negative or critical of the Internet in general because I'm actually really quite pro-technology.

Only the heart without a stain knows ease.

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

Praise is deeper than the lips

"Radicalized" is a new keyword for you to understand that allows our government to not say "terrorism."

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.