I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.

If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.

It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

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

Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

If you’re alive, don’t move, if you’re dead, don’t worry about it.