I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.

Writers don't need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.

My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.

Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

Let your past propel you forward, not hold you back.

Transformation, on the other hand, is creating beauty from horror or destruction (or, for beginners, an actually pleasant evening with the usual family problems).

But it is hard, whatever you have endured, to give up on love. Hard to stop thinking of it as a home you might one day find again. More than hard

I just go with my gut.

The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.

I am an ordinary person.

If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.

It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.