As My Late Mother Famously Observed, The

If You Cannot Stand A Spoon Upright In The Cup, Then The Coffee Is Too Weak.

One Thing That Helps Is To Give Myself Permission To Write Badly. I Tell Myself That I'm Going To Do My Five Or 10 Pages No Matter What, And That I Can Always Tear Them Up The Following Morning If I Want. I'll Have Lost Nothing-writing And Tearing Up Five Pages Would Leave Me No Further Behind Than If I Took The Day Off.

It's The Easiest Thing In The World To Know God's Will. You Just Wait And See What Happens, And That's It.

If You Build A Better Mousetrap, Nature Will Build A Better Mouse.

The Less Attention I Pay To What People Want And The More Attention I Pay To Just Writing The Book I Want To Write, The Better I Do.