If you accelerate or decelerate unevenly while driving a vehicle, your passengers will feel jerked around. Don’t jerk your passengers.

The last forty times my wife and I watched movie trailers at a theater, she whispers to me, “They’ve shown too much.”

All human emotion stems from either love or fear.

Given the growing number of satirical websites that provide highly realistic information, I thought I would try my hand at such a...

When your prose is effective, your readers will become someone else in a different time and place.

If you want to immerse yourself in a creative and unique atmosphere that sends you far away to a distant land, then listen to a soundtrack.

The world will not accept you as an author any more than those whom you know personally.

Are you looking to choose a career? Let me help you. After reading this you’ll run off to the nearest university and register for classes.

I was surprised when I heard many authors express their fear of writing dialogue. “Dialogue is easy to write!” I said to myself.

A substantial number of academic papers have been written which describe human consciousness.

Deciding to write a unique novel is like deciding to write a better one. You must ask yourself, “Unique in what way?”

The following is the letter I sent my brother when I learned his son had chosen to play the trombone in high school.

If my mother were to haunt me from the next world (which would be a surprise because she is alive), I know what her incantation would be.

For years, critics kept telling me my stories didn’t have enough conflict. Reviewers would write, “Your characters have it too easy.”

I believe that happiness is governed by the following two-part principle.

People nowadays are spending more hours playing video games than watching TV. Women are catching up with men on video gaming hours.

If you want your young children to learn to write well, encourage them to draw.

Recently my mother asked me, “What is calculus?” After recovering from shock, my response to her was, “Asking that question was a mistake.

There is a welling in my chest every time I see a sunrise. It is a mixture of awe, anticipation, optimism, solitude, and gratitude.

Every author has what literary experts call voice. It took me years to realize that voice simply meant the author's unique writing style.

As you write every sentence of your story, read each one aloud and ask yourself, “Is this sentence easy to read, and is it enjoyable?”

I've noticed throughout my study of literature that sidekicks and supporting characters are more interesting than their main counterparts.

People across all social and economic levels of society are becoming less respectful.

Pieces of your themes must be touched upon repeatedly—wiggled—so your readers will keep in their minds the central messages of your tale.