When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Bloodchild" is my pregnant man story.

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am

The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.

Making a movie is you're really only as good as your weakest link, so when everyone's working at their best and it actually comes together, it's an extraordinary thing because it doesn't always.

If you don't believe it yourself your team darn sure won't.

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.