Kissing a witch is a perilous business. Everybody knows it's ten times as dangerous as letting her touch your hand, or cut your hair, or steal your shoes. What simpler way is there than a kiss to give power a way into your heart?

I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.

For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have...

...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.