Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

He gave each wolf its own name, and he told me that they were crossing the Moon River, a place that he said, “Is where all wolves go when they die.

I haven't always been a patient man...but something tells me you'd be worth the wait.

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.

It's the moment you think you can't, that you can

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

I occasionally go to a yoga class. Everyone looks so limber and coordinated compared to me. I feel like I scare my classmates.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.