Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

Distance is an outer phenomenon. In the inner world, everything is connected with love.

When you realize your purpose, it brings understanding deep within you

Feed your child ideas of peace, harmony and compassion but at the same time give them courage to defend their identity and dignity.

Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency

Here was the love and violence in the hearts of men, all for their women

I'll only go if there's cake.~Tobias "Four

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world.

I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.