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

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.

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.

Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it.

The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

A homosexual is the only man who ever meets a man he would like to marry if he were a woman.

Achievement is talent plus preparation

You do your runway show, and it's all over the Internet before I see anything on there.

When someone rips your heart out, there's nothing you can do to change how you feel about them. You just have to keep feeling that way until it goes away. Until it never does.