I think men who can cry are strong men

I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I had figured that out I tried to figure out what kind of book I could write that would be unlike anything anybody had ever seen. When I started writing A Million Little Pieces I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.

Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?

I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something that really mattered. Like something that I could live without, but would make life much harder if it were missing. And life is hard enough. Life is hard enough with everything we're given.

The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.