If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
I won't read novels while writing novels.
Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?