McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.

You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

"I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding."

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.