Favorite Quotes

“Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.”
- W. Edwards Deming

“Just because you get something doesn’t mean you deserve it. And just because you deserve something doesn’t mean you will get it.”
- Condoleezza Rice

“Everything stinks till it’s finished.”
- Dr Seuss

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
- Will Rogers

“Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”
- Albert Einstein

“One of the easiest things in the world is not to write… If it were easy, everyone would do it.”
- William Goldman

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
- Napolean Hill

“A year from now you’ll wish you had started today.”
- Karen Lamb

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”
- James Dean

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
- Mark Twain

“If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.”
- Carl Jung

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
-Robert Frost

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
- H. G. Wells

“If a man does his best, what else is there?”
- General George S. Patton

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.”
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
- Albert Einstein

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
- Albert Einstein

Part of interview with Suspense Romance Writers

Q – What would you like to tell your readers?

A – When someone tells you that you can’t do something, they are really saying that they can’t do it.

Your abilities are different.

Look within yourself. You will probably have to shove doubts and ‘learned truths’ out of the way, but look deep within to find your essence. Then, as you cradle this wonderful jewel in your hands, see how each facet shows several talents and know that you can do many things.

Believe in yourself and follow your dreams.

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Q – What is your best advice for aspiring authors?:

A – There’s something special about a fictional story. This may be due to the fact that they are rooted in emotion. Regardless, we often view our stories as protectively as we do our children. Thus, I see the transition from writer to author begin at the point where the writer stops shielding ‘the baby’ and begins looking at the story as a product.

For me, this is a three-stage process. I write the first draft of my babies for myself and let the emotion flow.

The second stage is where I put emotion aside and rewrite for the reader. In my case, this means I cut out quite a bit of extraneous information that would bog down the story. I’ve been known to cut entire scenes and chapters. If I still viewed the story as my baby, I don’t think I could do this, as it would be too much like lopping off an arm.

The third draft eliminates typos and redundancies.

I repeat steps 2 and 3 as necessary.

Actually C. J. Cherryh said it better, “It is perfectly okay to write garbage–as long as you edit brilliantly.”