Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.