Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.

The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several seemingly unrelated ideas that somehow magically come together to create the fabric of the story.

The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.