If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.

You're excuses are so lame they're limping.

I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You don’t have to do or be or have experienced, traveled to, but you have to imagine all of that, very well–and believe it completely during the bubble of the work.

It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into something when no one gives you a foundation.

You want safe? Find a nice puppy you can train to come heel. Love's supposed to be scary. Because if there's no fear, there's no thrill.

The purest magic is in the heart.

She doesn’t like you, McNab. “I knoooow. I find that really attractive in a woman.