If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.

A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience.

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

I was coming together...limb by limb, after being brokenfor an infinity.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you have to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.