The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.

This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.