I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.

Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.

Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'