We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—
You have to love what you do because it's really, really hard work to get to top and it's even harder to stay there.
It sounds like a cliche but there are no shorts cuts. You have to be very dedicated and challenge yourself everyday to be better.
No matter what's going on in life, I can emerge myself into a game and I love it. Outside of my family, it's the love of my life.
Don't ever doubt yourself because there are enough people in the world that are going to doubt you.
It was the proudest moment of my career to lead my team out at the home of English football. I never, ever dreamt that would happen!
I think the rapid rate at which people started caring and paying attention, because it's just something that I don't think you can really prepare for - there's no textbook on it. Just the amount of interest that people have in me and Alice and the "Twilight" series and the rest of my cast.
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.
I'm kind of interested in learning to learn and grow and challenge myself. I think I've been very fortunate in that my books are pretty different from one novel to the next. There's a lot of things that are similar but in terms of tone and the scale and how they interact with history and just the different styles as well.