“We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to cre...”

“If you can sustain your interest in what youre doing, youre an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in peoples professional lives, and perhaps in their emotional life as well, i...”

“Were always looking, but we never really see.”

“Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.”

“If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.”

“To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.”

“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.”

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?”

“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ”

“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.”

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”

“If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”