The downs are the times when you lose sight of who you are and that happens along the way sometimes. . . Writer's block when you doubt yourself and you get insecure.
Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
Believe in miracles but don't depend on them.
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here [in one place] and there [in another place] at the same time. And yet that's a fundamental piece of quantum mechanics. So then the question is, life is dealing us weird lemons, can we make some weird lemonade from this?
I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?
Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.