“Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.”

“Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.”

“Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.”

“Pain fuels artistry and creativity. Harness your suffering and become a master of your art.”

“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.”