Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.

But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.