Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.

That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.

You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho