I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.

The struggle is what teaches you.

Smile. It gives your face something to do.

You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.