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.

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.

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

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

I’m getting all warm and fuzzy inside at the prospect of these demon things roaming the street, preying on us. (Tate)

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!