Pretending the past doesn’t exist is as bad as living in it.
I find I use the Internet more and more. It’s just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now – and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email.
I don’t believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn’t read for pleasure.
I’d always loved to read – and come from a family of readers – but I never thought about writing as a career.
I would hope that my writing’s cleaner than it was when I started.
She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion.
Necessity is often the mother of balls.
I generally write a first draft that’s pretty lean. Just get the story down.
I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.
I read a lot – and I read a variety of genres.
We make our own choices and we’re each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven’t the right to claim either from someone else.
People in hell want snowcones.
The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.
If you love someone, when it’s the most real, the most important thing in your life, it’s not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.
Two women can’t share a house comfortably, no matter how fond they might be of each other. It’s got to be one woman’s kitchen.
Nature will kill you without a minute’s thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn’t make her any less beautiful.
Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?
In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.
Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That’s why the world’s lousy with theme parks.
If sex is dignified it’s not being done right.