He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.

Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.

One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.

Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.