Professional writers write to fit

We as authors sign a pact with our readers they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised.

Whatever beginning goals you set for yourself, following through on them will build momentum and a sense of achievement and those small success will point the way to bigger ones

You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write

As the hero learns, readers learn too.

Its truly ironical how arrogant we are about dust being here and there and end up sleeping in the dust forever!

Visible obstacles shine a light on hidden opportunities.

It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.

I really don't know what's the best for you and for all out there.

One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

If you’re not pissing someone off, you probably aren’t doing anything important.

This is a place for ordinary human compassion of the kind that is reconciling.

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.