If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition.

I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.

You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.

You’re sure? I thought I heard someone.”“Nope, not a soul, ” Blake said. “Get it. Soul. Because we’re in a church.

No matter how much we think about something, in the end, the decision is made on how we feel.

Oh, ' she says, 'the Vat prints nothing but rapes. You know what a rape usually is? It's a woman who changed her mind afterward.

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

People aren't blind. They know - they want to have a country where people who are coming in are known to our authorities, those who are in charge of this.

So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.

Don't look down, it's an impossible view; Fly like an eagle whatever you do.

School kids don't know the world is a million times bigger than school's version of it.