“Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.”

“Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but theyre also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas Adams and Amy Tan and Suzanne Collins and Chinua Acheb...”

“FAILURE IS INEVITABLE. I will fail. We all will. And having failed, and gotten back up, and failed again, taught me that I can survive failure. This is a downfall in most modern stories: the hero a...”

“Failure makes the success worth it.”

“There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.”

“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”

“Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.”

“So I was communicating directly with God? Absolutely. Expressed that way, it sounds grandiose. But when it was happening, it didn't feel that way. Instead, I felt like I was doing what every soul i...”

“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost inc...”

“And yes, Ill admit, I am jealous. Im jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought....”

“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.”