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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them.

I believe I'm a better writer now than I was when I started. I'm grateful that I had good guidance because you don't make it in this business without good editors and a lot of support from your publishers.

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

You become a great writer by writing.

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they bring me into worlds that I did not previously know. And that, as a writer, is what I try to create.