Pace yourself in your reading. A little bit every day really adds up. If you read during sporadic reading jags, the fits and starts will not get you anywhere close to the amount of reading you will need to do. It is far better to walk a mile a day than to run five miles every other month. Make time for reading, and make a daily habit of it, even if it is a relatively small daily habit.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

Ripping up carpet is easy, tiling is the issue.

A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.