All the praise in the world is not going to heal you, and all the criticism isn’t going to hurt you.
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The threat of forever is the inner critic’s weapon of choice.
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Despair is just my guidance recognizing a lie and trying, in the only language it has, to point me back to what is true.
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I was young, and still harbored the idea that there were certain creative standards everyone on earth could agree on.
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Having a race filled with obstacles at regular intervals I had to clear made sense to me.
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The ideas that come to us that need crafting do not belong to us anymore the than draft day hopes belong to camera operators.
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It is not my job, nor anyone’s job, to belong anywhere.
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I do love stories, but I have to tell the ones I actually want to hear.
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Sometimes if you tune into a person you feel as if they’re a character in one of your stories.
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We can give our characters a mansion as easily as we can give them a shoebox.
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Money’s not much of a motivator when I can get for free what I imagine it can buy me.
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To appreciate an ending, you must understand it’s invented.
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The difference between your enemies and allies is forgiveness.
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If there was only one piece of craft advice I could give a new writer, it would be that your job is to say the most in the fewest words possible.
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Despite all the momentum of the fear that somewhere out in the misty future there is a world where no one likes what you’ve written, you must bring your attention back to the present moment where the story you want to tell is waiting for you.
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The Road to Hell is paved less with good intentions and more with a glorification of suffering, holding onto ours as if it’s what makes us who we are.
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The world’s always a friendly place when I remember it’s a giant classroom.
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In this way, writing began teaching me how to love other people. I love them best by getting out their heads and sinking into my own heart, which, it just so happens, is where I find what I most want to write about
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As storyteller, I mustn’t become seduced by problems. Just because they are the fuel for my stories, and just because they are easier to see, does not mean they are the reason I am telling stories.
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We cannot share what we do not already have, and once given we are always left with more of what we offered another.
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