“Sometimes all you need is a little push to change your life in a BIG way.”

“Even if you are not aware of it, there are moments when you are receiving hints, a nudge, or support from the other side.”

“Pay attention to your life and you will see bits of 'magic' that happens precisely when you need it to happen.”

“Not everything we experience can be explained by logic or science.”

“At times it feels like the whole universe is pushing you to do something.”

“There is no such thing as a coincidence. You will feel this before you know it.”

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.”

“Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compr...”

“He wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.”

“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Sh...”

“Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”