You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Children are a blessing. They are a happiness so sharp that it feels like pain.

He confided his deepest secret to you

I want my clients to trust me.

And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly.

It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds.

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

Petersburg, growing up at home, all by my family and friends, Petersburg really, city-raised me, you know everybody there.

Don't squat with your spurs on.