A true writer cuts their heart open and bleeds all over the page...

A true writer cuts their heart open and lets it bleed all over the page... ~Cynthia Batten

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.

The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.

It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.