The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.

Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound.

I am thankful to God for the grace of being alive.

Every book is a revolution. Books are our ticket out of boredom, despair, loneliness—but also ignorance.

Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies.

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.

The physical manifestation of gold is nothing more than the physical manifestation of value itself.

If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.