“We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, even if it's tiny. A pebble starts the avalanche.”

“Something terrible happens to people who don't create, something poisonous. Creating is a necessity for all humans, like breathing. If you don't do it, you suffer.”

“Shut up and write.”

“Most people give up their pursuit of genius early on and spend their lives desperately seeking it in others.”

“Do You think it matters if they're tiny or deep? he asked. Well, if they're not tiny breaths and they're not deep breaths, then they're just ... breaths. Then you're just breathing for the sake of ... breathing. ... Seize them. Feel them. Love them ...”

“Everything you have ever read about vampires - most of it is inaccurate or downright false. We are not beautiful, we don't turn into bats, we don't shrivel up in the sunlight and we are most definitely not afraid of something as fickle as garlic.”

“Ten tiny breaths … Seize them. Feel them. Love them.”