Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.

I never said I was consistent.

It always amazes me how many women like dangerous men. Men who almost from the moment you meet them, you know are bad news. Me, I prefer my men kinder, gentler, nice. Niceness is highly underrated by most 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