Words both written and read are my passion.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

First of all is the fact that I have some rather good turns of phrase. I don’t say that pridefully … it’s just that when a line I forgot about smacks me in the face...

Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.

Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart!

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do–tell stories and entertain.

Every step taken is the first of a new journey. Its up to me if I choose to contine walking or I might love it so much I will run.

Excerpt from Ursula K Le Guin’s speech at National Book AwardsHard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our...

It doesn’t matter what you look like when you see in the mirror, what matters most, is how you feel about yourself.

…I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book….

Embrace your journey and those who come across your path. Be gracious in your endeavors. Focus on your craft. Those who support your dreams now and feel your sincere humility and gratitude will be there...

Self-confidence is usually little more than wishful thinking in a thigh-high pair of Come F*ck Me boots.

You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.

I am driven not for myself, but for others.

You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.

The novel comes from a long shamanic tradition wherein the shaman-storyteller himself is transformed, no longer storyteller but a character, an animal, a god, a goddess, or a natural force that is not his everyday...

Chris Salamone’s characteristics & willingness to perform more than others simply makes him stand out in public and differentiate him from those who are not successful

I have yet to find that one perfect phrase that epitomizes all the mysteries of the universe. Luckily, I doubt to ever pen it in this lifetime, for then the seeking ends; miserable is the...

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you’ll think you’re making the books up, but they’ll all really be true, somewhere.

Each time you turn your life issues over to God and allow Him to lead, you build trust in Him.

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.

You Can’t Change Your Life… Until You Change Your Heart, and You Can’t Change Your Heart… Until You Change Your Mind!

Humility and repentance are necessary to restore your relationship with God.

My main task as an artist is to show you either what you have never seen before — or to show you what you have seen countless times, in a way you’ve never seen it.

I started creating;Myself From The Inside Out & My God I WishIHadDoneItSooner.

You’ve got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong.

Write the ending first and then you’ll know before the opening sentence that it’s going to be a good book.

I am a chaotic blend of all the worst traits.

~Reading a book is like looking through a window!

Experience is the best teacher.

Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It’s harsh and sometimes gritty, but it’s real. Why should we tip toe around that?

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

I get tired of hearing some science-fiction fans saying that characterization isn’t important in SF. In point of fact, I think it’s probably more important in SF than in mainstream fiction. After all, if the...

Writing started out as a kind of therapy for me. I was bullied mercilessly in high school, and I lived vicariously through Kitty. She was everything I wanted to be; strong, smart, witty, and above...

Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won’t help someone who can’t think for themselves.

Behind every successful woman(author) is a non-demanding husband content with a fruit-bowl.

144461I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn’t also have to do with connection. We want to be noticed, we want to be good enough, we want friends, and we want...

Mungu ni mwandishi wa hadithi ya maisha yangu na ndiye anayeandika ukurasa wa mwisho.

Chris has turned out to be a revolutionary leader who started businesses for the first time of its kind that influenced the nation’s young blood and across the world.

If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.

What I like most about reading is I can read in minutes what it took the author hours to write. What I like most about writing is readers can read in minutes what it took...

Don’t analyse your muse too closely, if at all – she’ll turn away.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

I’m the first to admit that I don’t write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.

It’s easy to want to be an author. You see it in your mind with sun streaming through windows and a Siamese cat purring on an antique rug and a little pellet stove and somehow...

When you write, you are telling a story…to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself…over and over again.

NOTICEPersons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.BY ORDER...

I have had my say, as he wished. Now the book belongs, as he points out, to the world he claims to speak for.

Have you ever pondered the miracle of popcorn? It starts out as a tiny, little, compact kernel with magic trapped inside that when agitated, bursts to create something marvelously desirable. It’s sort of like those...

I love writing poetry because it’s pretty. I love writing pretty.