Light streamed through one of the windows and across her face and I have never seen anything or anyone so beautiful in my life. If my heart had stopped at that moment I would have fallen happy and fallen full and I would have seen in life all that I had wanted to see and all that I needed to see. Fall. Let me fall.

I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.

You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.

I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right.

All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.