"Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong."
"Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost."
"Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down."
"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."
"A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)"
"This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard."