Love is not a theme. It’s an atmosphere, a mood.
Life is everything, and you haven’t lived it properly until you believe.
I generally don’t become overexcited about things anyway, I’m just not one of those people. I’m not easily surprised by things either. I think it’s because I expect that anything can happen.
We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.
That’s what life is about: People come and go.
Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.
This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.
Yes it’s difficult. Yes it’s horrible. Yes it’s the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can’t give up.
Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.
I don’t know why, but there’s always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn’t ever want to leave the dark behind.
But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?
We don’t realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.
I’m most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.
I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.
Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories.
Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.
I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.
More often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we’re going backward when we’re actually moving forward.
I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it’s a more visual process for me – I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.