“Death. It was something I had to think about once. Weird, right? Strange that death was ever an inevitable end, but it wasnt anymore. Not really. I eluded it. Tricked it. It was an odd conceptthe w...”

“Its okay. ImFine? Joseph chimed in. Obviously not. You need to be checked out by a doctor. I am a doctor. I rolled my eyes at him, but that didnt deter him from his train of thought. Not that kind ...”

“Gabby, Jenna cried. Its so horrible. I cant believe this happened.Jenna, I said in a soothing voice, Im alive and okay. No worries.She sniffled into the phone. No, its not that.I waited a beat. Wha...”

“It’s okay. I’m—”“Fine?” Joseph chimed in. “Obviously not. You need to be checked out by a doctor.” “I am a doctor.” I rolled my eyes at him, but that didn’t deter him from his train of thought. “No...”

“Gabby,” Jenna cried. “It’s so horrible. I can’t believe this happened.”“Jenna,” I said in a soothing voice, “I’m alive and okay. No worries.”She sniffled into the phone. “No, it’s not that.”I waite...”

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.”

“Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compr...”

“It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feel...”

“His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. ”

“One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjust...”

“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.”