There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

Everything was okay today, but I am not feeling okay. I think that when the things you like go away, you die a little bit inside, and I think that it takes a long time for you to feel okay again.

I've done many things that I thought I would never dare to do because they were sins. But I didn't realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.

A true friend reminds you why you should believe in yourself when you have forgotten.

All this electromagnetic pollution in the air from the Internet and cell phones, it cuts you off from God.

The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition.

It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.