Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum.

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

A writer always writes.