If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.

Novel writing, I’ve discovered, is the most liberating. You can write the narrative in the past, present, or future, and from virtually any viewpoint or philosophy, including your own. The only keeper you answer to is your own creativity. It’s total autonomy.

Writing is dreaming with your eyes open — and your heart on fire.

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.

Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either.

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.