This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.

That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.

A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as research.

I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.

Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.