Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. So go.

Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.

But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.

You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.