I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.

I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him- go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again, if I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.