“I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories.”

About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published.

There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.SFWW-I is that book. It’s the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction.

The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.

Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!

As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape–fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.

Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.

Official truth is not actual truth.

Men used the music to get the girls in the mood to make love. So either way you had it, Barry White is the one artist who actually was in your bedroom with you at your most sacred, sensuous moment of your life.

That’s not an accident that Donald Trump didn’t begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.

The symbolism was in – and this sounds really, really small, but it’s actually big for African-Americans – the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.

I Tweeted Keri Hilson the other day and she actually wrote back! I was so excited.