1. “Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
2. “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.”
3. “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
4. “We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.”
5. “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
6. “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
7. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.“
8. “Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.”
9. “Monsters are real, and Ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes , they win.”
10. “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
11. “Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.”
12. “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
13. “Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
14. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one s a lot of hard work.”
15. “It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.”
16. “You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.”
17. “French is a language that turns dirt into romance.”
18. “Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.”
19. “If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.”
20. “You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”
21. “We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
22. “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
23. “When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
24. “Time takes it all, whether you want it or not.”
25. “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door closed.”
26. “Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”
27. “It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”
28. “We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
29. “Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.”
30. “Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
