I have a day job, which means my family isnt dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.

Bullying is not okay. Period.

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.

Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.

If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.

If I'm making myself laugh, I figure most of my readers will be amused as well.

Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.

I read more books for research purposes, whether its a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant.

The biggest mistake a person can make is to lie to an engineer about a subject that they specialize in.

True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

It's a very different bond, siblings and friends. And I just - I wanted that huge family, just to surround me, be surrounded by.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.