Crying is part of the adventure.

To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.

I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

You see, writing down your meanderings gets something started deep in the recesses of your brain. That distant part of your mind knows that you want to write stories or poems or plays and not endless jabber, and it will get to work. It may take a while. You may have to write this stuff for hours or days or weeks, but eventually that subterranean part of your brain will come through and begin to send you ideas.

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

I never met a word I didn't love