The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away.

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.

and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the person you are today.

As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could not tell you for sure why they strapped Santa to a cross. Had he missed a house? Had a good little girl somewhere in the world not received the doll he'd promised her, making the father angry?