Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.

you will not falter, because you will have the Everlasting Arm of the Lord God of Hosts to lean on. Yes. With God’s help you will stand.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb