Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people

Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.

I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus.

Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens

If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It's a rule.