“Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.”

“What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?""Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire.""But, I saw-""What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.""What does the story mean, then?""It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.”

“I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart.”

“Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.”

“She wanted love and passion and lightning bolts in her marriage - the sweet fire only Jack could give her.”

“If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.”