I'm not a good collaborator in general.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

We're celebrating our freedom. We're celebrating our ability to be kids when everything is trying to take that away from us. It's a choice, Ty. We can do whatever we want.

Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.

Any society that is silencing its women has no future.

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious depression issues.

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.