We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it that I want to talk too much about the characters and that slows the story down. So I say, "Hey, people want to find out what's going to happen next, they don't want to listen to you spout off about this or that person." But I think even the bad guy deserves to tell his side of the story.

JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever

The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

Good books are for consideration after, too.