Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need.

Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.

When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.

Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.

Characters begin as your children and become your teachers.

Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them.

Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.

Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer.

Perfection is not something you strive for. Perfection is in the eyes of the beholder. Perfection is a state of grace, of peace of serenity, a moment as fleeting as a smile.

The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things.

I'm my characters' galley slave.

Basset Hounds never get scared. We’re fearless, resolute and know how to season a good lamb chop.

He did not want to feel old. He did not want to feel the weight of his age hovering above him, mocking him out of the core of a man’s pride, waiting to descend upon his mind and body.

We owe our strengths & weaknesses to constellations and genes - winning over our imbibed weaknesses result into maturity.

The rate of delay is in direct proportion to the urgency of arrival.

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out slow and sad because that's most of what I listen to.

Afflictions clarify the soul; And like hard masters, give more hard directions, Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections.

They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.