Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured?

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print

...you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.

When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect

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.