All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

I always want to give the victim a voice.

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

Some people hate the smell of hospitals. I hate the smell of jails and prisons, all the same: stale cigarette smoke, Pine-Sol, urine, sweat, and dust.

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb." - Edward Cullen, Twilight

But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me--precisely.

Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing

I always thought music was open to all things.

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

My heart is breaking," she says. "I want to be strong for you right now but the thought of you leaving is killing me inside.

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.