Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain you caused them is that same pain you feel now.

There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.

Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.

Teen readers can see aspects of themselves in the teen authors, which in a way, validates their experiences.

I'm a big believer in giving teens a voice and opportunities to share their stories and experiences.

The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano.

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.

Making money is fun but it's pointless if you don't use the power it brings.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

A speckled cat and a tame hare Eat at my hearthstone And sleep there; And both look up to me alone For learning and defence As I look up to Providence.