I want saner gun laws. I think all these automatic weapons should be banned, big clips and handguns should be banned. As far as I'm concerned, shotguns and hunting weapons are all that we should allow in America.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

I'm not one of those people who as a writer lets my characters tell me what they want to do or call to me or seek me. I go seeking for things, using them as an agent, really.