There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.

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

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.