Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones.
Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.
Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do.
Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.
Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.
Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels.
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.
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...