Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.

If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.

If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?

Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with.

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping.

It is said, in a fire, everyone runs away from it save for the fireman who run towards it. When dealing with students, be the fireman.

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.

Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize.

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.

Perseus, you are not the hero.

Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to the movie and what the themes of the movie were.

Spending time with the child or adolescent in mutually enjoyable activities on a regular basis will help to build warmth and trust.

When the shadow of death blots out my joy And erases the face of the sun Give me strength to endure, hope to believe That living and dying are one.