People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.

...Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.

You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written about places I've never seen - but it does help.

Many things are possible. Few things are certain.

I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.

I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly

I do first draft in longhand, which saves a lot of rewriting. I try to get a certain amount done each day. Don't always, but I try. Then I clean up in the rewrites.

You count snouts,” Straha said. “Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.

People were as they were, not not as he wished them to be.

If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promoting positivity online.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

Affirmation literally means to validate or confirm. So when we think a thought over and over again, we are validating or confirming it as the truth.

We should refuse to get sucked into political camps and insist on pulling the best out of all of them. That's what Jesus did - challenge the worst of each camp and pull out the best of each.

The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am... not all actors approach it that way.

God guarantees that His Word will not return void. He doesn't guarantee that the return will be immediate. Keep sowing!