“When you believe you've become the best writer you can be you still arent.”

“Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.”

“Writing a novel is easy writing checks is hard.”

“I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way.”

“Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.”

“Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.”

“Writing a novel is easy writing checks is hard.”

“Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or less at the upper edge of his window frame. A pair of very soft, clean glistening black shoes a...”

“As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.”

“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express my...”

“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.”