Ive tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.

Bullying is not okay. Period.

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.

Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.

If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.

If I'm making myself laugh, I figure most of my readers will be amused as well.

Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.

I read more books for research purposes, whether its a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

Summer grasses, All that remainsOf soldiers' dreams

There's a way and a place for everyone to contribute to the greater good. Stop going no where fast and go "your where".

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together

our can'ts were born to happen our mosts have died in more

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.

When you stop caring about something, then other people have to decide whether or not they genuinely care about you, or not.

A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en!

To survive is to win.