
Honesty makes stories real and characters memorable. From there, taking them to where they need to go will be all the development they need.

Writers need to get over the fear of hitting the "publish" button.

Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid.

Don't polish it forever, put it out there. At some point the changes aren't improvements, they're just changes.

I believe in you. That is enough.

It's amazing how my mind opens up right when I have to run on the treadmill. I've finished three chapters rather than run a mile.

My first bestseller was a cookbook. That will make any novelist humble.

I wasn't a class clown, because nuns have no sense of humor. They have rulers.

Open your soul and put it out there and dare the world to read it, ready to have them stomp on you and laugh, but ready to do it again the next day.

Believe in yourself and start achieving your dream. It waits for you on the other side of the publish button.

You can ask somebody just about anything if you say you're a writer first.

If you write a bad book, mobs do not show up with pitchforks and torches - and odds are you didn't write something bad.