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

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.

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.

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

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.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

How was I going to break it to my sister and brother that I was now a demon lord?

This typewriter is the only one that has listened to me throughout the years, the only one who wants to know the girl beneath my layers.

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

It is in the doing that makes the being worthwhile.

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.

I don't think parents always know where their children are going or what they are doing, what they are up to.