“In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.”

“You are stronger than me," Asa says. "And in bravery and strength, there is a kind of beauty.”

“Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.”

“Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes y...”

“I write for the kid in me. . . . Often when Im working on a story, Ill find myself laughing at something my characters have done, or even being surprised at where theyve taken the story. Its as if ...”

“If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.”