All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.

We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.

Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water.

Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books. The Great Spring and the thirtieth anniversary of Bones just came out and while I'm happy and excited about that, I've already finished a new book. That's what practice does. You don't get caught.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.