A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours.

Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson." But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful.

You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder.