Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.

All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

Never having something is different than having something and losing it.

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.

Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.