There’s really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly.

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

Want to dance? We have music this time. And I don't have to punch you when we finish.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

The journey of the flame is what brings the Games closer to society and allows society to take part in the Games.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.

So little of what could happen does happen.

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.