Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

I trust my characters. They know their stories better than I do.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.