Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.
Ambition is a stairway that never ends.
Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels.
Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.
Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.
We like to think we're in control but we never are.
If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.
Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.
Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.
You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre.
Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper...
There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb.
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