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

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

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

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.

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.

Aku tahu, mencintai dan melupakan, sama sulitnya.

Real success is not rooted in positions, places or possessions, but in fulfilment of God's purposes for our lives.

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.

Thank God, who delivered us from great death, the doom of distress.

Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.

Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

Focusing on solutions fuels progress.

If you have too much to do, with God's help you will find time to do it all.

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.