“We write by the light of every story we have ever read. ”

“[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.”

“If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.”

“As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.”

“Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?”

“Only the nonreader fears books. ”

“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.”

“If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself.”

“Indentations on the page, words, my friends, and I will share them with you.”

“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.”