For nothing is more fulfilling than love itself.
If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.
When I am in the process of conceiving a story, I make sure it can be told with words and pictures. The story has to be creative, original and interesting in both areas. Many stories get rejected because they feel derivative.
I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing this novel I became very familiar with the various movements in American Modern Art from 1900 onwards.
I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.
It doesn’t matter to me whether I write in a man’s voice or a woman’s, or first or third person for that matter. Those choices come down to the story and I just go with it.
And maybe, just maybe, it will.
Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.
We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.
If people don’t like you, or they think you’re strange, then that’s their problem.
I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.
The key to happiness was achievable dreams.
Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.
It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.
I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I’ve read has taught me something.
As a writer, I will tell you that darkness is so easy to make interesting. It is so easy because you’re allowed to do anything you want.
Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.
I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.
Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.
There are things that happen that change the course of people’s lives, but it’s a function of everybody’s lives.