Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard.

People who say you can't do something should be ignored. They're probably talking to themselves.

I'd be lying if I said killing off characters wasn't therapeutic in some way.

Park your ego and listen to your readers. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. But chances are you'll learn something from them.

If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.

Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company.

Don’t fear the future or regret the past but celebrate the present.

[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.

You fail to see the endless sky when you have a tunnel vision

They fail and they alone who have not striven.

Life is a DNA software system.

I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.

Lookin at herself, but wishing she was someone else because the body of the doll that don't look like hers at all. So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up and gives a grin.

Blessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it.

I worry more about something that isn't working rather than something that feels really good. You forget about the good stuff.

The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.