Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.

Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.

Description is the color in the canvas of your story.

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.

All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this.

Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself.

Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.Sit down, and write.

All great writers share one thing in common:They finished their books.

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.

If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book.

I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.

People don't understand the pressure on me to look perfect.

Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

We too often love things and use people when we should be using things and loving people.

Call me Buffy. I’m even blond, but don’t ask me to wear a halter top. Or corset.

One of many joyful moments with BB King was him letting me play 'Lucille.' ...The thrill will never be gone.