“Misunderstanding and distrustthe predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.”

“You'll never get to the happily ever after if you don't move past the current chapter...”

“I was behind, but now I'm below. Hopefully, they'll have books wherever I go...”

“A great book increases my heartbeat as if Im prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths.”

“And they...LIVED! Life isn't always Happily Ever After, rather, loving FOREVER, regardless.”

“Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.”

“Im a dot in the grand scheme of things. I dont matter, not even to the other dots.”

“Music is a writer's heartbeat.”

“Gratitude is the gateway to a positive life.”

“Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books.”

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books”

“Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misint...”

“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.”

“As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball playe...”