“Choose your friends carefully but don’t worry about your enemies, they will choose you”

“All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing”

“Remain assiduously stubborn with your positive thinking, sooner or later the world around you will give up and let you have your way”

“Writing is a lot like life, the more you learn the more you realize that you don’t have a clue”

“Life is a great novel, discovering your calling is the far better sequel”

“Want to know what it feels like when your soul bleeds? Write a novel.”

“I don’t just want a gripping story line. I shoot for the three dimensional literary Braille to a silent Scorsese movie”