If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.
I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.
We write by the light of every story we have ever read.
Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.
...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.