Quotes

"Your audience is your adversary. If you don't have one get one - imagine it. Imagine it now. To whom is your story addressed and why? Audience is always a creative act of the imagination. You can't tell your story effectively and leave it out. It must be alive in you, vividly alive. It is in conflict with everything that is false in what you have written. If it is an audience worthy of your talent and potential, it won't let you slide by the lies, the laziness, the shortcuts. If you don't take audience seriously, you can be sure it will return the favor."

"Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story."

"Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story."

"Be selective in your battles..."

"Everyone's life changes when they meet their Obi-Wan & their Yoda, or their Morpheus & their Oracle; those who help remove the veil."

"A person who speaks as if he knows everything soon drives away his listeners. The Universe communicates itself to us in many ways, and sometimes, it is through the words of others. If we act the know-it-all, others may refrain from talking to us, and we may fail to get the message they could have given us."

"My continued respect is only given to those who have proven worthy of it. My respect for another person can be revoked in an instant if warranted and never to be regained again. Tread carefully."

"I know you did what you could to help pappa."Kid," I brushed his hand off my shoulder. "Your father did a stupid thing and paid the price for it. Now fuck off."

"I smiled. “You mean like a psychic imprint? I know your assistant director of the Preternatural Division, and I mean no disrespect, but I never got the feeling you believed in magic as an investigative tool.'From the book 9 Incarnate - Caitlin Diggs Series"

"Motivation is the first step in achieving your dreams!"

"Tonight, I decided to take a stroll down to my local liquor store. Maybe I’ll find a refreshment to wash down this full moon. I hate showing up & the clerk fucking knows my name, perhaps because I’m a regular. Anyways got my shit, left…barely covering the tax. Took the long way home; to get away from that haunting typewriter. Sat down at some park bench, as I started to open my poison; A memory rushed into me. A empty bottle of Jack Daniel’s under the Christmas tree. I thought my dad would want another drink, so started to pour my bottle into the dirt & cried."

"Eat Ice Cream. Read Books. Be Happy."

"What's matter of importance is that if you can make your ownself laugh and smile."

"Smile out loud! Make them wonder."

"Things you Do to live a Happy life, shouldn't ruin others'."

"You can't feel the essence of Happiness unless you overcome your Sadness."

"The world is so closed off to the inner beings of ourselves, I refuse to ever lower my energies to that."

"You were, arecactus tourism. meeting you: granularfractals borrowed from oceans."

"You crawled inside myribs to die. Giant becomes squirrelbecomes a dirt-wet girlfeverishly alive."

"My mind: a thousand hungry daughters,my harlot heritage. Marbles: lost, no rescue search. Your heart: blooming thorns,and a stolen grocery cart."