“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.” and you guys give me the strength to do it. This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”