God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.
...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.
Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.
I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.
It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.