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Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple ...
It is better to be young, beautiful and rich than ugly, old and poor.
His voice was flat. It reminded me of long afternoons in a dark saloon. The patrons drink in cheap liquor and recycled smoke. Each stares ...
Collective achievement, of course, is less appealing both to the participants and to those later reading about it as the human impulse is to look ...
So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance ...
Dan explains the trip's itinerary, which includes trekking through the jungle, boating down the Amazon River, and to my surprise, three Ayahuasca ceremonies.
There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the greatest devoutness to set limits on charity.
The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.
What if you do what you think is right, for yourself or someone else, but it doesn't make a difference."- Susanna Quiner
I craved making money; it was the only way I knew how to survive.
We have transformational conversations with people we value!
Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted ... the decades roll on without even a suggestion that perhaps the ...
I only direct in self-defense.
The more you know, the less you know.
Before you break all the rules, learn the game. Too many startups and entrepreneurs want to sprint before they learn to crawl.
Where courage and judgement are equally required a clever coward is better than a stupid hero.
It's funny: I like being surprised as a reader, so it's difficult for me to spoil my own stuff.
In my first novel the heroine didn't get her man, in my second the heroine was 64 years old, my third was a romantic suspense ...
Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a ...
Do you want to leave me Alana?" Ryan asks anxiously. "Do you want me to leave you Ryan?" I respond softly. "No," he rasps. "Then ...
The family believes that my grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American hero who went well above and beyond the call of duty at ...
Votes, this essayist insisted, not signatures, were the correct way to express the public will - a
People who don't trust before the explanation, will not trust even after the explanation. Trust cannot be negotiated
To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics ... I've been very fortunate. 'The Warriors' is certainly a cult classic, and 'Xanadu' ...
Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.
I attribute all of my success to my Catholic faith. My faith has given me the ability to be a good father, a good husband ...
Insanity on top of insanity. Even the voices in his head were hearing voices. Nice.
I'm thinking we need a plan ... I'm thinking it should involve running.
What is the point of "Quotes Steve likes"?
Every man has got to have something all his own or he isn't a man" - Adam Twist, PI
It's still hard for me to talk about the day I visited a shelter for children who were victims of a domestic-violence household. The kinds ...
Let's get ready to rumble!
Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of ...
I didn't say what kind of book. You have a foul mind Bingley.""Don't mock me on my sister's wedding day!""I mocked you on yours; I ...
If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.
Save what you can toward the emergency and life happens fund. But don't worry yourself sick at the slow growth. The point is it's growing ...
God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.
Every dystopia is masked by a utopia.
Risk is the increased consequence of failure.
My name? Of course it helps. If you've got it, use it. I'm proud of it, for sure.
Do you like biscuits? My mama makes the best
This is a fantastic place to come back to in one's next life. Forget Nirvana, make a mess to come back.
We no longer harbor the naive presumption that things work out for the best.
Listen more; talk less."An executive once gave me this advice. I think it's a good thing for us all to keep in mind.
The things you believe in only as real as the superstitions you follow.
Art is a tool that isnt used enough to effect change.
Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.
In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be ...
The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.
If you are writing and no-one reads it, are you a writer, or you just writing?