I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

To declare the raw truth is to live in dominion

Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.

My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times.

At midnight tears Run into your ears.

Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults.

There is no failure, only a process which is leading us to become the greatest version of ourselves.

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.