just another brat

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

There’s no better teacher for writing than reading… Get a library card. That’s the best investment.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraodinary destiny.

It's okay to be a glowstick: Sometimes we have to break before we shine.

The first draft of anything is shit.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.

Write as though nobody's watching because nobody's watching.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

Sometimes the ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works. I like a mystery, as you may have noticed.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.