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

she was just that shiver that makes you walk faster at night. You don't know why you do it, but some part of you remembers that the dark is never really empty. ~Anita

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

Knock your bad self out.

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.

There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.

That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.