I read two to three books a day anyway (I only sleep about two hours a night, and I read really fast).

I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music.

When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the world of beautiful words.

I drag my husband out of bed, hook him up to a coffee to stay awake and make him listen to my plotting and any issues I may be having. I *need* his head-nodding (he's an expert head-nodder).

I'm a well-intentioned plotter who ends up with wondrous pantsing revelations and (at times) ginormous rewrites that look almost nothing like my carefully plotted plans.

While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get nowhere to begin with.

Did nothing in particular And did it very well.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The more you have to talk yourself into it, the more it’s not ‘it’.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place.

He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to know it. -Ella

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.

To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.