There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

You don’t know how I feel about you? I try to show you how much I care about you every day. How can you not see that?

Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect.

It's very difficult to kill somebody in a movie, unless it was an accident.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

Truth never was indebted to a lie

I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.

During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.

I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.