Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.