Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.

You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?