Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.

You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.

From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.