“People who say you can't do something should be ignored. They're probably talking to themselves.”

“I'd be lying if I said killing off characters wasn't therapeutic in some way.”

“Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard.”

“Park your ego and listen to your readers. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. But chances are you'll learn something from them.”

“If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.”

“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”

“Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you...”

“Smirking, he says, "Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn't work, so I think you need to go back to Hogwarts.”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”

“For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty.Now I am pretty lonely.”

“I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.”

“Trawling through a dusty attic of my addled memory I found that Id been rather in a lot of daft and amusing situations, so I set about writing them down. The only problem being that I was a lot bet...”

“Trawling through a dusty attic of my addled memory I found that I’d been rather in a lot of daft and amusing situations, so I set about writing them down. The only problem being that I was a lot be...”