I've always loved J.R.R. Tolkein and recently, Christine Feehan and J.K.Rowling. There are many as I'm an avid reader, but those three come to the fore.

I am a true psychic. In my family it's the norm. My sister and mother are always 'in my head' and say or do the same things I'm doing at the same time.

Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees.

I was about seven years old. In my mother's garage I used to create plays and star in them and charge the neighborhood kids five cents to see them. It was a lot of fun.

After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as I did. She has a number of short stories.

I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for me to.

If you are an intelligent human being then you are interested in climate change because it's the most important issue of our time.

I am not interested in having somebody telling that what I have to water down my message or that some advertising person would not like it.

We have got a very short time to turn climate change around otherwise we will all die.

I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night.

It's good to know that there's a fine line between an "outfit" and a "getup."

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage.

When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

Bomb Disposal Is a face off with your own mortality. Don't let the fear get to you. When you give in to the fear, the Darkness Comes.

The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.

No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.