People always say, "Can writing be taught?" I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.

Everyone knows everything eventually.

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.

I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.