Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen
We make all these plans about how things will turn out. But life happens. Plans change. So we doubt. We draw on strength we didn't know we had. We give up any allusions of control. And we deal head on with problems that come our way.
Don't wait for permission to make your art.
Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
"You can make your children safe in the world, or you can try to make a world safe for children."
It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.