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Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power.
A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.
I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
Today is just another normal day full of miracles, gifts, and opportunities.
Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation.
Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.
Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.
We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.
At 16, I started reading trashy stuff, anything slightly naughty and risque.
Good customers want good quality service. Great customers want it even more.
If they're going to remember the problem, make sure they remember it fondly.
When your staff are 'information-rich', their information can make you rich!
When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.
If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.
Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.
You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.
Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.
In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
If I set out to write 'War And Peace' or 'A Suitable Boy,' I'd be miserable.
My job is to take care of the possible and to trust God with the impossible.
It's good to be a widow in New York, because I can do something every night.
Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not - not for a single second.
It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.
The only way to be who you want to be is by being what you haven't yet been.
Those who are religious or who have any beliefs have so much to choose from.
We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
She hated their new nickname. It made them sound like deranged Barbie dolls.
Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.
I'm a huge fan of Alice Hoffman, Fred Chappell and Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
Doctors say there's no such thing as chemo brain, but ask any chemo patient.
I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.
It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.
When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.
Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?
I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.
I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.
Choose the words you say to yourself wisely; they are creating your reality.
Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.
Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.
Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.
If you want customers to hear about you, make something worth talking about.
If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor?
How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.