“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”

To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren’t with me I haven’t a thing in the world.

We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Hunger is good discipline.

You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

I’m tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you’re yet to be.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

They may seem like the perfect fit, for your incomplete puzzle. But they’re not the right piece.

I love you more now that you’re a memory.

In another life, you and I stay together.

It is a lonely thing to do to stare at the stars and see poetry.

When is giving up okay before or after we break?

Healing was not found in mending my brokenness, but in finding peace among the pieces.

What a loss they suffered, the day they left you.

Breathe my dear, just breathe and this too shall surely pass it will not break you.