If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.

Never get in the middle of someone else's quicksand.

I've always found ideas everywhere, but my favorite place is Nordstrom, because of their liberal return policies for those ideas that don't work out.

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures.

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.

Bruises fade. Death is permanent.

You are giving me words to write and that's even better than butterflies.

Be comforted! If there are people who can't stand to be around you, just remember that darkness hates light and deceit hates truth.

He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.

[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

The size of a diamond doesn't indicate the size of my love for you. The earth hasn't produced a diamond that big because my love for you knows no bounds. Ronin Black

Crooks are early adopters.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

It's been a long time since I've won a race in anything.