My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

I never said I was consistent.

I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.

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