“Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.”

“Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but theyre also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas Adams and Amy Tan and Suzanne Collins and Chinua Acheb...”

“FAILURE IS INEVITABLE. I will fail. We all will. And having failed, and gotten back up, and failed again, taught me that I can survive failure. This is a downfall in most modern stories: the hero a...”

“There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesnt mean you have to succumb to them.”

“There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.”

“Spirituality cannot be an excuse for not making money!!! Just a justification for failure!”

“The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things c...”

“Success and failure will all come to pass like waves, only Nature remains”