Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

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

I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn’t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.

Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.

It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new.

No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.