The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.

If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.

If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public. I bring my laptop or write freehand in notebooks. Then, I'll read through them while I exercise or walk the dog. The very last thing I do is the sitting alone at the computer part.