Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

Bah-Bah-black sheep, have you any soul?No sir, by the way, what the hell are morals?

You're not what I expected in a pirate."He laughed, curtly. "You're not what I expected in a princess.

That's not writing that's typing.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live.

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.

Be grateful for the love you have to share-share it, and it will return to you ten times over.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore.