If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either".

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

Time is the only critic.

If you have to do it, you can do it.

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

You can’t always control your external environment, but you can manage your micro environment by intentionally choosing what you allow to influence you – by sight, sound, and presence.

A change in hairstyle gives a new look.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.

There were dragons when I was a boy.

And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.

I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.

When I asked my accountant if anything could get me out of the mess I am in now, he thought for a long time, and I didn't care much for his answer. 'Yes,' he said. 'Death would help.'

No one can help an alcoholic or addict until he or she is ready to try to get better.