You have to move beyond that vision of the way your life has always looked and begin to picture your life as you want it to look.

I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big, long books.

Don't educate people; touch them emotionally. Remember that people want to be scared or they want to be made happy or they want to be made sad.

I have done the merry-go-round and I have ridden the roller-coaster. I have made my choice. I choose the roller-coaster. There is more risk when you choose the roller-coaster, but at least you will know you have lived.

What you think about, talk about, and get off your ass and do something about, comes about.

The premise, to me, is the most important thing that you have to know going in. It's the problem as you see it. So I write down the problem as I see it. That is the premise for my book.

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