Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

The show must go on, and so must The Book.

In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives.

Yes, writing is that easy. Yes, writing is that hard. But if you want to do it you can. Only you can stop you.

Write what you love. Passion is the key to a good story.

It's okay to write a cliché in a first draft; it sets a marker that you can get far, far away from in the rewrites.

When you write a manuscript, it feels like being in a relationship with someone. You'll hate it, get bored with it, be pissed of, like you just want to break up. But, just like any relationship, you will fall in love again and again, like you don't want to lose it.

I think if a writer is being honest they’d admit to a file full of a dozen or more stories that are all started to varying degrees. They’re like the kid who wants to be a firefighter and a police officer and an astronaut.