If you ever expect to write fairy tales, you've got to get your head in the clouds.

A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience.

For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong.

A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write.

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tiny bit of influence on a universal conscience.

Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common.