I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret." - Clare Harding From the current book in writing BUMPKIN by Lani Brown.

Authors are supernatural beings. They exist in the world, also in worlds they create, and in the worlds of other authors they read.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays

If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

Rene looked at Grendel. “What in the world is that?” “That’s our mutant attack poodle,” I told her. “Is he chewing on a gun?

These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.

Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation.

So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.