If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like it's coming from some other planet.And you're just channeling it.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.