Grab a pen and your turf will have no limits.

If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

Writers get ideas all day every day. The FedEx guy delivers a package from Sears and the writer is thinking how it could actually be a ticking time bomb.

And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!

Don’t ever let yourself surrender to writer’s block.

When in doubt, go the scandalous route.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, I.E., do not cave in to endless requests to have 'essential' and 'long overdue' meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.

As long you are still living, you can achieve far more than you could ever imagined.

You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word.