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

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.

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.

Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

An individual is no match for history.

You haven't seen a thing until you've seen this man fight. My sword is sharp. My heart strong. My spirit ferocious - and I am going to live. Let the swords clash. Let the fight begin.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

I used to love going fishing. I think it was really about the clothes. Nothing says real man like a vest with 38 pockets and a mesh hat with hooks in it.

Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.

Born to myself, I like myself alone.

What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

ISIS is a monstrosity. It didn't come from nowhere. It's one of the results of the U.S. hitting a very vulnerable society - Iraq - with a sledgehammer.