When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.

My hatred gives me strength.

Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones: Was, did, had, made, went, looked... One-size-fits-all looks like crap on anyone. Sew yourself a custom made suit. Pick a better verb. Challenge all those verbs to really lift some weight for you.

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.