See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.

Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.

I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight... I know it’s not laziness, but respect for the work, and I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.