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

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

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

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.

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish.

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.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.