Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

I am not a morning person.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

The best lies are always at least partially true.

I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.

Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.

I am always successful in my work.

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

I am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.

We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.