And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

What we fear we often rage against.

Where there is contempt/scornful rejection and slander, there wealth will not remain.

Courage is being who you are.Courage is sacred of thyself.

I love you. That never changed eversince that day you walked right in front of me.

The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent.

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.

Red Bull doesn't give you wings, it just makes ya sick.

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

I try to be healthy. I train three days a week with a trainer. But I do like to eat, clearly. And I do eat dessert every day. If I cut that out, yes, I would lose weight.