Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right. The only way that works is to emotionally and technically act out and see the scene you're in. There's no better job in the world, because when I sit down at that computer I'm the world's best forensics expert, if that's what I'm writing about that day. Or I'm some crazed psycho running down a dark alley. Or I'm a gorgeous woman looking to find a man that night. Whatever! But I'm all of those things, every day. How can you beat that?

Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right.

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

What do you care more about? The kids or your hair?

You will leave now," said Grdankl the Strong. "Go! Do not be afraid! If you die, it is okay!

True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is.

Okay, so let's run faster.