Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every day whether you're feeling inspired or not; never be afraid to take chances, in fact, make sure you take chances. As soon as you become complacent, you become boring ... . Read as much as possible, not simply in the genre, or what you think you're interested in, but other things as well.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

I've always been interested in the outsider.

[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.

What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.

I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that they are real people, not invisible.