If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book.

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.

Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.

Description is the color in the canvas of your story.

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.

All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this.

Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself.

Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.Sit down, and write.

All great writers share one thing in common:They finished their books.

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.

The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them.

If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?

When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.

The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

Your life is important. Honor it. Fight for your highest possibilities.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

Brunch is boring, but that's part of the charm of it.

Physics is not the most important thing. Love is.

Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.