Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.

If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?

Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with.

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing.

Watch the little ones around you

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!

The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.

Accidental stacks considered harmful.

If I think something's funny, I think it's funny.

I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!