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.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

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

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

Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.

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.

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.