“Hope is the fuel that raises our standards. Losing it deletes our most basic desires.”

“The only certainties in life are time and change. The question you must ask yourself: is now the time to change?”

“Chances multiply when you take them.”

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in that chair until words are written, or you're going to give up and walk away. The ...”

“When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”

“Im likely to stay here, pen in hand, until dusk comes and my writing melts into the twilight.”