The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

I'm honestly not a big fan of pitching things. I'm a firm believer of letting the product speak for iteself.

All stories are true.

The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.

Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.

You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.