“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.”

“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you cant, youre dead”

“When I am grown up I shall carry a notebooka fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.”

“Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. Its the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.”

“Is not our purest form of writing that done without the taint of money?”

“One single letter cures the blank page.”

“When you write, you can write yourself into the world of your dreams or the world of your nightmares. The choice is yours!”