Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.

I see all of them. All the colors.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself

Evil can do anything, for a price.

I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.