There's a strange thing goes on inside a bubble. It's hard to describe. People who are in it can't see outside of it, don't believe there is an outside.

Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.

Write backwards. Start from the feeling you want the audience to have at the end and then ask "How might that happen?" continually, until you have a beginning.

The presence of fear doesn't mean that you lack what it takes to strive and win. It only means that you stepping into a whole new territory.

Wishing for something doesn’t mean you should have it, and saying something doesn’t necessarily make it true.

Peter said Ananias why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?... And Ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghost.

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.

A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.

Traffic terrifies me.

Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.

When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up the same time.