I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies.

It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.

Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?

Let me tell you something about hypochondria: It's a pernicious, undermining little demon. It won't kill you, but it will sap the color from your life so that in the loveliest moments, the moments of grace, you are hit with that whisper in your ear that takes it all away. I'm sick, I'm dying - I just don't know it yet.

Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too.