I still need some more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

And then it hits me like a fast, open-palmed, stinging smack in the face.Having a ghost boyfriend WASweird

Remember something about attention. Yes, it’s possible to buy, grab, or even steal it. But it’s far better to earn it.

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

Haiku sounds like I'm Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.

Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don't care what time of the year you're there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.

It's such a thrill to perform live. You never know if you're going to get hit with a bottle or a bra.

So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile.

There is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs.