It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time..

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never t….

When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime..

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals..

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement..

Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't..

You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work..

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode..

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible..

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton..

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping..

A migraine is the cockblock of writing..

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about..

Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum..

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind..

If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes no….

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere..

A writer always writes..

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing..

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction..

It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches..