#advice

"High school will probably be better. I mean, some kids will still be jerks, but it's not so bad if you have at least one good friend. Someone who gets you."

"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."

"The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about."

"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."

"On your birthday you should throw me a party. This is my advice for everybody, especially my clones."

"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours."

"Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it."

"Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within those pages."

"I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored."

"My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up."

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."

"This is your life – not your parents’, teachers’ or significant other’s. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn’t feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out – change your shoes and start walking."

"You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel."

"I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward."

"If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs."

"a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in."

"We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential."

"A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it."

"My advice for a person who's just fallen out of a skyscraper window is, Flap your arms...faster."

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."