I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie.

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

I love the structural part of the writing process.

Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).

Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I could go on writing the book. It was like living in a padded cell, but of all the lives I could have lived at that moment, it was the only one that made sense to me. I wasn't capable of being in the world, and I knew that if I tried to go back into it before I was ready, I would be crushed.

Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc.

Raise the bar. Don't duck under it.