All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

Marriage is referred to in the bible as “mystical union,” and it really is in the sense that two people who don’t know each other get together. I’m always interested in how much you find out about the other person and how much you don’t find out.

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.

JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever

Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.