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My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.

Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land.Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention

Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.

Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.

Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja.

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to ease those words onto the page.

He has led us in here against our fears, but he will lead us out again, at whatever cost to himself.

While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is to set the stage, to pull the reader in.

Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis.

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

I like living in California. I think it's the best state, although we're supposedly the most hated state of all.

witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.

I don't try to pretend to be what I'm not. I don't feel I need to do anything outrageous.

As far as liberals are concerned, the Democrats are concerned, when the New York Times clears you, you are cleared.

There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.

I actually don't understand a word Paula's saying anymore. It's like a new language.