• “Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.” – John Jakes
• “Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...” – Lawrence Clark Powell
• “Write without pay until somebody offers to pay”—Mark Twain
• “Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.”—Ivern Ball
• “I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
• “Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to ...

• “The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.” –Dave Barry
• “Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”—Moliere
• “I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning”—Peter de Vries
• “Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away... but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.”—Rumer Godden
• “I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night...

• “Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don't want the other person to forget that we forgave”—Ivern Ball
• “Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves”—Gene Fowler
• “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”—Ernest Hemmingway

Current Projects

• The Dragon's Jeweler (NaNoWriMo 2010)
• Unnamed SciFi Short Story/Possible Novelette

Upcoming Projects

• The Magic of Anterra Trilogy
  • The Book of Anterra
  • The Sword of Anterra
  • The Gods of Anterra

Old Projects I Might One Day Get Back To

• Plagueborn
• The falcon screamed... (this one is mostly done. It might come first. I can remember most of the first page by heart, which is a good sign)

Projects I Don't Even REMEMBER

• Plagueborn (vaguely recalled--even more v...

• “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages”—Dave Barry
• “Change your language and you change your thoughts.”—Karl Albrecht
• “There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.”
• “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”—Ludwig Wittgenstein
• “Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.”—Lee Lacocca
• “That woman speaks eight languages and ...