“When you believe you've become the best writer you can be you still arent.”

“Writing a novel is easy writing checks is hard.”

“I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way.”

“Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.”

“Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.”

“When you believe you've become the best writer you can be… you still aren’t.”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”

“Nature: it might be the magical key to unlock a locked imagination.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”