85% of modern music doesn't have a damn thing to do with music. It has to do with looking good. Name me one woman on the top ten right now who isn't absolutely smoking hot. You think that's a coincidence?

Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.