People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

No, death hadn't changed [Willie] much. But just in case, I avoided looking directly into his eyes. It was standard policy for dealing with vampires. He was a slime bucket, but now he was an undead slime bucket.

We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -Edward

The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake

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

There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.