Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.

He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You’re not ready for it, but if you’re lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you’d planned.

No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.