Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.

The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more.

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.

Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates.

When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. (Marti Melville)

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.