You don't just change your whole life in one big step. It's the small things you do every day that pull over to the big things, like taking yourself out for coffee and eating a really good dessert when you're depressed could be the start to living a fulfilled life.

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live.

I think there are some people who don't have dreams so much - they have a job and money they earn. That sounds sort of condescending, but I think having a dream just makes you more happy and hopeful and gives you a reason to have the next day.

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.

There's never one "ding-dong" moment.You never know for sure if you're doing the right thing. Things don't end all at once.

The scene that scares you the most, that you don't want to write because it's the most difficult to write-that's the one you have to write. So I think when people have writer's block, it's because what they have to write scares them. And that's usually the heart of the book.