You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.

One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

A map is not a journey.

But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.

Good deeds never go unpunished.

Because we all know one of the main factors of war is the element of surprise. And what could be more surprising than the First Batallion Transvestite Brigade? Airborne Wing.

I think that Jim Rice should be in the Hall of Fame. I think that Craig Nettles should be in the Hall of Fame and he didn't even get a sniff.

The woman who respects the needs of her body will junk the junk food.

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.

He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.