This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

A lion is not afraid of walking alone, even if the whole jungle is pursuing it.

The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers.

As a boy I was obsessed with Egypt and Egyptology. I'm convinced it's not that uncommon. A lot of 10 or 12 year old boys become obsessed with Egypt. It's a bit like young girls and horses.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

Success is dependant on effort.