A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

Has someone or something pushed your anxiety button? Answer it with prayer!

I won’t stay, ” I warned him. “I won’t try to fight for you anymore. This is it. If you walk away it’s not for me. I won’t ever think that. I will always, always blame you for this. For ruining us.

The evidence is there and it is clear. We want the people to be held accountable. Everybody who played a role in the death of Martin Anderson, we want them to be held accountable.

If you do it properly, life is art, really.

Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins

I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.

Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things.

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

It has been shown that to injure anyone is never just anywhere.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.