Oh, man,” he mumbled with a full mouth. “At least the food is good.

I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you can have a little more humor. It doesn’t get so dark...

Wonder why we can do this,’ he called out with his mind. The mental effort of speaking to her was already straining—he felt a headache forming like a bulge in his brain. ‘Maybe we were...

He turned to look just in time to see the rain start falling out as if the storm had finally decided to weep with shame for what it had done to them.

I love the sound of it,” Trina whispers, as if speaking too loudly might interrupt the drumming patter of the rain outside. “It makes me want to sleep. Snuggle my head right up in your...

Don’t ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space...

Newt…””Do it before I become one of them!””I…””KILL ME!” And then Newt’s eyes cleared, as if he’d gained one last trembling gasp of sanity, and his voice softened.”Please, Tommy. Please.”With his heart falling into a...

Hunger.It’s like an animal trapped inside you, Thomas thought. After three full days of not eating, it felt like a vicious, gnawing, dull-clawed animal was trying to burrow its way out of his stomach. He...

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

I’m crazy, boy. I’m a madman. I could eat both of you for dinner and love every bite.

Just go with it’, he thought. ‘You won’t figure out anything if you give in to fear’.

You’ll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it’s the story that matters.

Find our way out, Greenie. Solve the buggin’ Maze and find our way out.

He forced himself forward trying to seem innocent without acting like someone who was guilty who was trying to act innocent.