Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them.

Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them.

if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.