Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

How plotless real life was!

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.