What you say is what matters.

I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.

That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.

No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.

I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.