I'd turn and run but I'm anchored by two dudes that could hold the Titanic during a tsunami.

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

See me when you look at me.

Barrons: "He got upset it wouldn't shut up and tore its head off." Mac: "The child?" I gasped

When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.

For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.

Fear and doubt are major stampeders.