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

“Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in that chair until words are written, or you're going to give up and walk away. The ...”

“When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”

“Im likely to stay here, pen in hand, until dusk comes and my writing melts into the twilight.”

“Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where...”

“I don't get it. It's a bunch of trees with leaves.”

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

“He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and w...”

“Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.”

“When you get the opportunity to lead, remember it is a noble opportunity not just to amass followers, but to nurture true and great leaders who can do even great things than you!”