“I don't imagine book elitists as my audience when writing. I dream about teachers, morticians and garbage men instead.”

“Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.”

“Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?”

“The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience.”

“We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.”

“I don't remember ever signing up for weird. It just sort of happened.”

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”

“Im a little bit of a plot junkie. I like stakes in my books. Sometimes storytelling gets a bit of a bad rap. Plots easy or theres a higher art we are all aspiring to. Yes, first and foremost we are...”

“See my blog at crossedeyesanddottedtees.wordpress.com for more of my writing.”

“A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer.”

“What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.”

“When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.”

“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”

“You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --”

“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”