Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory.

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing.

Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from its author!

Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved.

Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.

A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'

The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just work on it until I start to hear different from my own, or the other characters.

Love is the strength of the human heart.

Those you know the least may need your prayers the most. Don’t let the fact that you don’t know someone keep you from praying for them.

I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon, too.

Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.

You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.

I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about.

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.