You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.