A strong positive mind is an unbreakable shield against all negative forces and experiences. It never bargains for anything that goes against its true destiny in life. It sees life as an inevitable journey of...

I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the market. My family’s had to suffer for that, that I haven’t...

[Blog post, March 10, 2014]

You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.

The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to keep you from living up to your fullest potential.

I am an Author a person who plays with words so they can dance in the minds of others

Many people are partial to the notion that . . . all writers are somehow mere vessels for Truth and Beauty when they compose. That we are not really in control. This is a variation...

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

I write to believe in goodness.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

This is the best time to be an author.

Take’th my temple and cut it into little stars, placed carefully to the face of heaven and the world will shine.

You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you.

In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.

For obvious reasons, the relationship between novelists, the reviewing establishment and critics in general is chronically, and often acutely, edgy. A kind of low-intensity warfare prevails, with outbreaks of savagery. It is partly an ownership...

You’re asking the cyborg fugitive and the wild animal to be the welcoming committee? That’s adorable.

Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is “By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents,” for I have used many suggestions conveyed to me in letters from children. Once on a...

For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong.

Life, raw life, the kind we lead every day, whether it leads us into the past or the future, has the curious property of not seeming real enough. We have a need, however illusive, for...

How….will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.

Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.

What you should actually be trying to figure out is how to tell your story. The one that is every bit as unique to you as your fingerprints.This is the truly amazing feat because you...

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

I couldn’t admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck ’em, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body.

For every minute that a book entertains you, the author of that book invested several minutes of their lives. Please show your appreciation by taking a minute out of your life to leave us a...

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it...

Thank God For Writing, As Now I Can Work Until My Last Breath!

You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better

Writer’s block’ is just a fancy way of saying ‘I don’t feel like doing any work today.

Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things...

Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged

Get a wealth of ‘GOoD’ vibes at goodreads.com

What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. . . . When one so exposes it [integrity] and sees it...

I am quite scandalous, you see. I come packaged with unpredictable moments, brutal honesty, calamitous outbursts, the ghastly need for love, a fiendish lack of filter, the horrific need to question everything, nauseating affection, offensive...

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade..

The same Andrew Smith is in all these books, but for me, I feel like you can see the point in his writing where he decided he no longer had anything to lose. That, to...

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there’s an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If it wasn’t for our longing for these things, I doubt...

Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.

Don’t you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?” he said.

An increasing number of people are taking advantage of having a leg up on their competition by branding themselves as “the expert” in their particular niche. Call it a business card, a resume, a billboard,...

I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill...

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I think a great many people would enjoy doing what I did, and that is why they enjoy books and movies (and even TV shows these days) that feature Torture and Dismemberment, etc., etc., etc.

I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.

There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form –...

Many are never satisfied. They always want more ; and then when they get more, they are still not content. I think mostly because they are trying to keep up with others. You have to...