“Writing a main character is very important to me. Because each time I create one, it feels like another piece of me in a different world.”

“A good editor fixes. A superb editor fixes without ruining the original message of your book as a superb translator does as well.”

“Hating a main character for being too weak is like expecting a human to be able to do everything. Stories aren't all sunshine and rainbows.”

“Watching TV helps me come up with a lot of new ideas. Psychological and mystery help me the most because of how thought provoking they are!”

“Your mind is beautiful. No matter what problems people say you have, every mind is capable of writing something inspiring and beautiful.”

“An idea can be born from many things. Dreams, food, people... Ideas are everywhere. It's up to you on how you utilize them.”

“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.”

“nights and days came and passedand summer and winterand the sun and the windand the rain.and it was good to be a little islanda part of the worldand a world of its ownall surrounded by the bright b...”

“When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters a table leg breaks or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart...”

“A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.”

“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”

“You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --”

“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”