When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Gods are what people worship. Men are what die.

the happiest among us will be most altruistic, most distinct, most benevolent and most awkward to some of us in a way.

Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

You know, I say in my lyrics, "Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white." It's just that I know that this sh*t is just not gonna fall on deaf ears.

It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.

Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in