I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write

She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.

Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.