The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.

Writers don't need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.

My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.

Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

Children can be shaped into any way one desires.

Your life today is, for the most part, a manifestation of the stories you told yourself in the past.

The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.

You better get as much work as you can now because, once you get over 40, it’s over.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit.

There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.

The world is just going to continue to fragment, and that's a great thing.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored.