Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.

I have no taste for poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.

...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.

El escritor escribe su libro para explicarse a sí mismo lo que no se puede explicar.

Sometimes the writing just comes and we're like, oh yeah. Gotta love when that happens.

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.

El escritor escribe su libro para explicarse a sí mismo lo que no se puede explicar".

Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart.

A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.