JoAnn Ross Quotes

Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.

Never get in the middle of someone else's quicksand.

I've always found ideas everywhere, but my favorite place is Nordstrom, because of their liberal return policies for those ideas that don't work out.

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures.

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.

Bruises fade. Death is permanent.

Any guy afraid to die was a guy who was afraid to live.

... you're never alone if you've got a book for company.