Ambition is a stairway that never ends.
Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.
She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely.
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.
Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels.
Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.
If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.
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.
Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.
There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb.
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...