I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

If you're not interested in your work, you're not doing it right.

Seriously, just buy the [expletive deleted] book. I promise you'll like it. Unless you're [expletive deleted].

There's a difference between feeling like I don't need to explain and deliberately confusing you. If the impression is that I'm deliberately confusing you, that is not what I am trying to do at all.

You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.

I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.

One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.

I guess I am conscious of my weaknesses, and I think pacing is probably my biggest. I don't know if I think the clarity thing is actually a weakness. It was a stylistic choice.

My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting as I'd like it to be.

I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

A potential leader who obeys God is in much better position to succeed than one who ignores God's will for his life

If it had attempted to strengthen then I still receive, but if that had been repeated to make me give up. So I gave up.

The presence of fear doesn't mean that you lack what it takes to strive and win. It only means that you stepping into a whole new territory.

That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.

Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon!

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.