I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Anticipation makes pleasure more intense
Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the heroheroine into high drama.
Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just in our personal and family lives but in our churches, our political choices, our business dealings, our treatment of the poor; in other words, in everything we do.
Sometimes it is hard because my schedule is crazy. I am homeschooled, so my school travels with me.
I mean, growing up in New Orleans when you're in seventh and eighth grade and you're into music and you're a dorky dude, you know, you listen to the entire Rush catalog and the entire Zeppelin catalog and you go through these, like, phases of classic rock. It definitely speaks to our dorkiness and the similar hometown that we grew up in, the similar sort of schooling we went through and friends we had.
I wrote for Roseanne. I wrote her stand-up act with her. I wrote with Tom Arnold. There was a period when I was working with them pretty steadily. But I would take brief gigs here and there.