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My wife likes me better when I'm writing. It centers me and makes me more calm. When I go a long time without writing, I start getting frustrated.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

It helps to write as the character that I am trying to be, and try to journal every day as them. Once I've already recorded thoughts as this person, it's easier to just flip back through and be like, 'Oh, yeah, this is what she's thinking; this is what she's feeling.'

A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.

Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.