“Writing isn't easy because you have to relieve the most painful moments of your life, over and over again, and then you have to write them down, hoping that they’ll matter to someone else other than yourself.”

“You have to stop and freeze the moment," he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by repeating it in your head over and over. You have to write to preserve your sanity.”

“Blankets on the other hand are incredibly needy as they are always trying to fill a “void”. Are a bit whorish in that the instant you walk away from them in less than a minute they’ll be all over someone else, and the moment you actually need them they’re nowhere to be found.”

“You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.”

“No better stress reliever than to sit down and write! Let your imagination take you to other places and another time!”

“When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.”