Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.

You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds without it feeling as though your arm has been hacked off, you're ready to send your novel off to an agent.

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere