It’s better to be loved than feared, but if you can’t be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn’t.

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don’t shy away from it. Why should I?

That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn’t been innocent for years.

Why is everything always my decision?” I asked.Because you will not tolerate anything else.”Oh, I remembered now. “Great”, I whispered.- Anita to Jean-Claude

One thing I’ve learned about vampires–they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that’ll eat your eyeballs if you’re not paying attention.

We can order him to make appointments and talk to someone, but we can’t force him to actually do the work. You’ve got to be willing to work on your issues. You’ve got to be...

That’s what underwear is for, girls, so if an emergency happens you only show your cookies to the people you love.

I think like a detective.

But I was naturally suspicious; it comes from working too closely with the police for too long. Cynicism is so contagious.

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

Sometimes it’s not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you...

…on the job there was nothing but the job. You left the shit outside the door. You could always pick it up on your way back out.

I wasn’t like most girls.

Orospu çocuğu kan emicilerle çıkmaya başladığından beri bana hiç bir konuda tüm gerçeği anlattığına inanmıyorum Anita”Politik olarak doğrusunu söylemek gerekirse,senin o orospu çocuğu kan emici dediğin vampir, ST Louis’nin Şehir Efendisi Dolp”O seninde efendinmi Anita?”Ne?”Şehir...

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

If you are following Deity’s plan for you, it isn’t always the easy path; sometimes it’s the hard one. So why follow? Because to do any less is to betray your own abilities and gifts,...

I think we can do it.””But you don’t know for sure,” he said.”No.””Geez, Anita.””Don’t get rattled on me. We can do this.””But you aren’t sure.””I’m not sure we’ll survive the plane ride home, but I’m...

Like most creative people I don’t fit well into boxes.

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends – I can give them advice, but they don’t have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like...

I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.

I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn’t slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A when he finds you naked in the bed of boyfriend...

Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.

We aren’t the good guys, Anita. We’re the necessary guys. -Edward

You give the reader a sense of a full meal.

That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both

Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I...

The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn’t anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? — Anita Blake

She’d been a good nurse, and now she’d never be a nurse again. She was bitter about it and had turned herself into the slut bride from Planet X, as if even in human form,...

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.

Stupidity isn’t punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don’t plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you don”t do it on purpose, and you don’t do it to hurt people who love you....

Men don’t settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they’re dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not...

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn’t going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds...

For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end...

I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

Out last chance is a cat’s magic sight. We are doomed.

Edward leaned close and whispered in my ear so that Olaf would think he was whispering sweet nothings, but what he what he actually said, was, “We aren’t the good guys, Anita. We’re the necessary...

Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it’s a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can’t answer the question for myself, I wouldn’t...

People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes...

You can’t save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can’t save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy...

Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.

I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl’s got to have a goal.

If you don’t feel loved maybe the outward trappings like weddings and wedding rings become important? (Page 567)

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.