People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

Try to be accurate about stuff.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Some girls barely speak, but always askin' for a dollar.

Max," Jace said. "Max, I’m so sorry.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted.

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

Evil news fly faster still than good.