Often as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we’ve thought about who we are. But it is closer to the truth.

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable.

You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them

Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.

he tried to prepare himself for disappointment, even as he yearned to be proven wrong

It's a simple matter of mathematics.

Just as an earthly father knows what is best for his children's welfare so does God take into consideration the particular needs of His human family and meets them out of His wonderful storehouse.

People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.

Yes, I'm back," he said, "And look who I ran into." Horace grinned at him. "i hope you ran into him hard." "As hard as I could.

It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.

The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.