Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That’s who I am.
Words are where most change begins.
The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.
It is a writer’s greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books.
I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.
You’ll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.
I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
Oh, I’m just a happy person.
Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.
Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.
At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.
The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.
When I do research, I cast my net very widely and then snatch what feels right out of that. Occasionally I’ll read a specific book for a specific book, but usually I’m trying to increase my general understanding.
The more limitations you put on a character, often times the better a character you’ll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can’t simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.
Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don’t write them yet, but I build towards them.
To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.
People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.
Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.