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My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.

I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.

Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will find a way to tell the next story.

There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that's not quite as delicate in telling your own story. I think when I'm working on a personal story, there's less pressure to try to get it exactly right.

This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth of the story you're trying to tell.

If you're telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.