"My heart is ever at your service."

“People love stories. They need stories.”

Source : "Caroline Leavitt, Best-selling Author, On Overcoming Nasty Writing Teachers, How to Write a Bestseller and Never Giving Up". Interview with David Henry Sterry, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.

“Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.”

Source : Ted Hughes (2011). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, p.96, Faber & Faber

“Every morning I'd have coffee with my wife and we would discuss ideas. Sixty percent of what I did for the stores was concepts. The other forty percent was correcting and cleaning up other concepts in house, or doing final art on my concepts. Most of my concepts were so finished they could turn them over to somebody else.”

“The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.”

“If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.”

“Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.”

“I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.”

“Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.”