Love that has been tested is far more awe-inspiring than love that has never known anything but bliss.

Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being trapped in a room for ten hours with those characters. Think of your main characters as dinner guests. Would your friends want to spend ten hours with the characters you’ve created? Your characters can be loveable, or they can be evil, but they’d better be compelling. If not, your reader will be bored and leave.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.

Allow for many paths to your goal. Do not fixate on one path, because then you are likely to give up when that path is blocked.

Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us in.