When ever I am reading a murder novel I want to shout: "The butler didn't do it. The author did it!"

Don't Forget: "Perfection is boring because it is predictable."

"There are nine definitions of love in the dictionary-good writers will use one of them. Great #writers will imagine a tenth."

"Writing has music; read what you write out loud. No music is journalism. The breathing pace of the reader determines good writing."

"Pigs fly when politicians tell the truth, that is why you never see pigs fly."

"The poor teach kids to survive, the middle class teach a good job & entrepreneurial, the rich teach living off the labor of others."

"Some are hostages to their Past, others to the Future, others are lost in Now. #Time shouldn't matter that much or allowed to be a jailer."

"#Love is not a destination, a goal or a possession; don't try to find love; be love."

"Being blind begins with a loss of empathy"

"In order to learn how to play #music good, you have to have the courage to play badly & then see what is there which may be revolutionary."

"Some times my brain can ruin a perfectly good day."

"The goal of #writers is to avoid ending up face-down on the bedside reading table"

"The problem with being a great poet is that you have to be dead first. That is a stiff requirement."

"Those who spend all their lives trying to prove themselves right and somebody else wrong are always wrong-right?"

"#Love is the ability to rise above narcissism, #money, depression and bad family."

Good #writers describe reality, excellent writers highlight aspects of reality, great writers invent wholly new realities."

"There is no surer road to failure than the urge to improve upon what is already working fine."

"Writers block sometimes can be broken by considering yourself to be a character in a book and then be brutally honest. Self-pity can work"

"Write like you are story-telling before a campfire"

"If you want to get rid of an annoying friend, loan them money. You will never see or hear from them again."

She: "You can't stay the night." He: "This is my place and I am your ex." She: "Where's do you keep the poison; no where's the hatchet?"

"Some people are so sweet they are causing outbreaks of diabetes."

"Happiness is the ability not to be intimidated by reality."