I love music. I seriously cannot wait until the day comes that I get to perform around the world for people, I've wanted to do that my whole life.
Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something. . . . My theory is a children's book. . . can be just for fun.
Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.