I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them

Books are a uniquely portable magic

American grammar doesn`t have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm

You can`t deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

You can`t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair–the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

You must not come lightly to the blank page.

If you don`t have the time to read, you don`t have the time or the tools to write.