To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

On the way home, I saw a fist fight between an adverb and a pair of parentheses.I kept on walking.

Book:Sharing of life and experiences with other people.This is lifetime notes for all generations.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.

Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steal the hubcaps.” ― Michael P. Naughton,

A 15-minute gap in your day is plenty of time to write and read, but not if you check your email first.

Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.

I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.

If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.