A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

Theres something about girls and unicorns thats deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

I think theres too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.

I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head.

What saps your energy and drains your strength? If it makes you feel bad on the inside, it will make those around you feel bad too! Don’t be the energy vampire whom people want to avoid.

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Haters are going to hate.

When you're playing a man, you can look tired and horrible and you still look okay. As a woman, if you're tired, it's terrible. It was such a luxury not having to worry about that.

Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn’t Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best. Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

I love wearing a lot of color, and I am majorly into scarves. I'm the Beau Brummell of Fleetwood Mac, no doubt.