My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.

When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.

If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car

Don’t measure how far still you’ve got to go, but how far you’ve already gone to get to the point where you are now.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

Do you forget that I am your sister?” “No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.

Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.

Being with someone I love and care about to feed off positive energy is crucial.

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

I don't really believe that people read just the stuff they agree with.