I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a mishmash of expectations that can never all be met. What one-tenth of my readership may not be crazy about the other nine-tenths savors. The moment you start altering a book or a painting or any type of art as if it's a public collaborative, you crucify its soul. I'd rather irritate a few people and delight a lot than touch no one." ~ Karen Marie Moning

Werewolves? Oh please, just plain stupid. Who wants to get it on with a man ruled by his inner dog?

You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure. You have to look with the heart.

The kind of person that thanks another person never survives. Have you learned nothing?

Air ye deaf, lass?" I think. He might have called me a hairy jackass

Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.

You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?