Ponytail Falls, taken by me on a hike "For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'th...

"The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find i...

"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we...

"By your third draft, the main plotline and subplots ought to be clear. If your novel at that point is still muddy and changing enormou...

"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars." ~Vincent Van Gogh On a...

" Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " ~Carl Sagan HERE , you'll see that literary agent Jenn Laugh...

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." ~ Rabindrana...

" I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam." ...

"Music is what feelings sound like." ~ Author unknown  Authors are often asked where we get our ideas and inspiration. I've ...

"The characters in your story will not engross readers unless they are out of the ordinary. How can it be otherwise? In life, ordinary ...

  " Have zero expectations. Don't dream about winning a Pulitzer, making a hundred thou on your first (or thirty-first) book. Don...

"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.  Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart.  Let me not pass...

"I believe one thing holds it all together. Everything I've ever done was with excitement, because I wanted to do it, because I lo...

"...gut-level reactions--following the story where the story wants to go instead of where you intellectually think it ought to go in ...

"E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, b...

"Failure is success if we learn from it." ~ Malcolm S. Forbes I did a Skype visit with some teen writers yesterday at Boise Pu...

photo courtesy of morguefile.com “There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, y...

"You do what's in your gut - if you've been doing it long enough, what's in your gut will be appropriate." ~ Anderson ...

"The perfect is the enemy of the good." ~ Voltaire photo credit: Ansel Adams Ansel Adams is a fan of that quote. For he understand...

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." ~ Carl J...