I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.

I don't even know - for me, it's difficult to decide which is more important - the things or the thoughts. It seems to me that certain things came up more or less naturally.

At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a book, and the totally intangible experience of reading it.

I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.

We see the one light, the one unified reality that we see in others, is the same reality that is within ourselves. We are one with all of existence.

I'm always happy. I like to have fun. During the game, I don't like showing my emotions, though. I'm all about winning the game. I take a lot of responsibility for that.

I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.

Let bygones be bygones...but where I'm from, We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young.

Mira Grant is actually my pseudonym. And Seanan is pronounced SHAWN-in.

I've got a lot of good friends - the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets - both owners are friends of mine.

Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.

Michael might have become a vampire, but watching him stand outside in the night air, breathing in his freedom Claire thought that was as human as it could get.

We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]