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

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 don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

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.

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

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

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