Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.

Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.

I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day.