top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Storytelling is what lights my fire."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."
Author Name
Personal Development
""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important."
Thought
"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."
Fire
"I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked."
Age
"I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach."
Thought
"I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design."
Art
"You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end."
Beginning
"Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could."
God
"I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow."
Will
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
Friendship
"If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong."
Wrong
bottom of page