I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.

My word will never be as strong as God's word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.

My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people.

Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.