write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.

First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.

But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.

...there are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.

I do love you. I mean, love has nothing to do with this.