Audiences will admire your character’s strength but connect with them through their weakness.

You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

Writing is dreaming with your eyes open — and your heart on fire.

When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.