"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."
"When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day."
"We owe it to each other to tell stories."
"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."
"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
"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."