You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.

You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance.

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.