“All writing begins in the sea of experience.”

My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.

I’m not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it’s a big difference.

Writers don’t need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.

The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.

The more likely that person will begin to keep you in mind as well.

We can’t do it alone. And that has to begin by his acknowledgment of the facts.

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen … infectious.

New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.