Indulge your imagination in every possible flight. - Jane Austen

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. - Louis L’Amour

I took a master class with Billy Wilder once and he said that in the first act of a story you put your character up in a tree and the second act you set the tree on fire and then in the third you get him down. - Gary Kurtz

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster. - Jim Wallis

Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours. - Erin Morgenstern