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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

I'm very fortunate to be doing what I dreamed of, what I love. So few people get that opportunity. So while people continue liking what I write, I'm going to happily continue.

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.