“Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.”

“Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.”

“Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.”

“Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make the...”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

“A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.”