To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing.

... no matter how nice you are to some people, they'll turn their back on you the second they get the chance.

Because it's our choices that makes us who we are.

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.

I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget

See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.

So I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing me in my underwear.

I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of the best people I know.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.

She looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness.

I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics and behavioral psychology.

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

I'm in a place where I don't know where I am!

The prisoners still keep killing each other thay hung six yesterday thay fight all most every night in the stockade.

I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.

If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.