Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.

Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.

Some issues stay fresh every time you open them up. It's like evil magical Tupperware -- it stays fresh forever.

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

Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.