We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.

A dream without a plan is just a wish

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.