You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?

My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.