“Sometimes, we are simply trapped in the cage of our own emotions, unable to break those bars. It hurts!”

“It's difficult to carry the weight of responsibilities. But, it's more difficult to carry the weight of expectations.”

“Achievement and fearfulness can't stay together.”

“It's easy to be with someone who is completely different from you, but difficult when that person holds starkly different opinions from you.”

“Your promise is someone's hope. Keep your promises.”

“You can never learn/improve if you are too proud to accept criticism.”

“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.”

“To write is to stand at the edge of a bottomless well, unafraid of falling in.”

“But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or no...”

“So here I am writing my zombie story and my lead character decides to betray me.”