A story comes into your head fully formed, you know exactly the place, the setting, the people. All you've got to do is get it our and written as soon as you possibly can.

If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.

You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

Think about it: send SLASH receive. Email is the frenzied killer of proper communication.

Oh, i feel my eyes are swollen. It's like either sobbing all night or someone punch me in the eyes.

Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.

Books are my weakness.

Embrace nothing: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.

When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

I'm a loving drunk. I get sentimental. "I love you guys." I drunk-dial a lot.

We travel the world, and our right to free speech is precious.