I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude

the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.

I looked up at Ellen and her not-glowing pentagram. "Harm none is the rule, Ellen: bad witch, no cookie.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print