“When you believe you've become the best writer you can be you still arent.”

“Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.”

“Writing a novel is easy writing checks is hard.”

“Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.”

“Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.”

“When you believe you've become the best writer you can be… you still aren’t.”

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

“When the people whom we love the most leave us, we start learning to live with the shadows they have left inside us.”

“The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.”

“Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or less at the upper edge of his window frame. A pair of very soft, clean glistening black shoes a...”

“As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.”

“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express my...”

“Not everyone may not think the way you do.”

“I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.”

“To think, to think, even with a split second left - to think was the only hope.”