A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.

Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.

A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.

Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.

Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

You're not prepared physically or mentally to pick a fight with a thousand-year-old vampire." he said. 'He is more cunning and far more ruthless than you.''Maybe I'll surprise you, ' I said. . .

Sometimes the only reason why you won't let go of someone making you sad is because he was the only one that once made you happy.

Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.

The pain doesn't go away. You just make room for it.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

If you turn your back on a customer, you turn your back on success.

The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.