Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?

Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.

If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.

I always thought everybody made up stories in their heads - never thought about actually writing them down on paper until I was snowed in with the kids in the blizzard of '79 - 3 feet of snow. I live in a rural area and was stuck. No morning kindergarten - it was a nightmare.