Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.
Only bad writers think they're good.
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
In the past, (GM) produced a lot of very excellent vehicles but somehow they didn't excite anybody.
This is going to make such a great story: How I nursed a pirate back to health and my love saved him," Miss Ohio said with a contented sigh. "And then we can have our own reality show about our relationship. " - "Beauty Queens
The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.