We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.

Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

It hurts like hell when the world won't invest in you. But it's excruciating, almost more than you can bear, when you don't believe and invest in yourself.

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively

Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.