“Your actions may not directly define the kind of person you are but the words that come out your mouth surely will.”

“Don't mind what people say about youthe most important thing is what you believe you are.”

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what...”

“His pen spoke more to her than he ever did.In the war of words, some are unwritten and some are unspoken.”

“How might I get over this? How would I be able to overlook the way he used to be with me? How could I overlook that his fingers touched my indiscernible soul before it twisted my nipples? How might...”

“Don't quit. A wind from nowhere could turn it.”

“When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.”

“If you are not able to see your goals, they will take longer to achieve, and sometimes longer is "never.”

“You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have...”

“Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in the stall of a bathroom of his barracks during boot camp. Elmore Leonard got ...”

“Sacred soul has indomitable strength.”