“Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about it.”

“There is no second place for doing first rate work.”

“Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Try to keep your thoughts in the present, for the future we will never know and the past we may nev...”

“An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.”

“True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.”

“Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.”

“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.”