I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation.
A poem is a spider web Spun with words of wonder, Woven lace held in place By whispers made of thunder.
Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.
Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.
Close your eyes and look inside, A mirror shines within; To find where you are going, First see where you have been.
Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.
The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers with a vision and wonder of the world and themselves that may be new to them or reveal something already familiar in new and enlightening ways.
Mark it down. You will never go where God is not.
Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.
I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.
In any broth, the scum always rises to the top.