We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

I hate the feeling when you have to say goodbye to someone you want to spend every minute with.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

I feel lonely for the sound of your voice.

Good fiction is written by people who’ve read a lot of fiction. If you want to be a writer, read a lot, and as broadly as possible.

Fanfiction is the madwoman in mainstream culture’s attic, but the attic won’t contain it forever. Writing and reading fanfiction isn’t just something you do; it’s a way of thinking critically about the media you consume, of being aware of all the implicit assumptions that a canonical work carries with it, and of considering the possibility that those assumptions might not be the only way things have to be.