Are you prepared for the first wound?

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

Britney: You in a fight? Odd: No, It's an employment-related fork wound.

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.