When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it.

ignore the pain, play through it.

[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.

We’re all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I’ve had to work harder than most.

Figure out what depletes you creatively and get it out out of your life. (This doesn't apply to spouse and kids.) Give yourself permission to put garbage on the screen. A lot of days it's the only way you'll be able to keep going. You can clean it up later.

Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.