Before you make the key, study the lock..

Sir, this lane is for ten items or less. I’m counting thirteen items in your cart, including that hemorrhoid cream. And while hemorrhoids might give ….

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published..

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes t….

Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it..

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not..

All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals..

Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This m….

Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters..

Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza….

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change..

Every tomorrow has two handles we can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, sto….

If you can't be smart or funny, be brief..

As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How lucky we all are..

You can't be both happy and ambitious..

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose..

Never having something is different than having something and losing it..