“My advice is to get a good agent and a good tax accountant if you ever make any money, and remember, you can't eat fame. And you can't write unless you want to write, and you can't want to unless you feel like it.”

“You can't beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.”

“Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to write, write. If you can't find the makings of a story inside yourself, you won't find them anywhere.”

“You can't write. That's not writing. It's scribbling. Distasteful scribbling. Why can't you write properly?”

“You can't condemn me for wanting you, unless you condemn every other man who has."

-Clayton Westmoreland”

“I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.”

“What good are all these books to you? You can't eat them! How can they make you happy?”

“Writing is just like making love - you can't do it whenever.”

“Writing is prophesy.
Don’t write anything unless you want it to come true.”

“You can't make a man a Christian unless you first make him believe he is a sinner.”