Authors are supernatural beings. They exist in the world, also in worlds they create, and in the worlds of other authors they read.

I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret." - Clare Harding From the current book in writing BUMPKIN by Lani Brown.

He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.

The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.

My feeling is, we ran from animals for three million years. It's our time now. If a cow could eat you, it would. And it wouldn't care how comfortable your truck ride over was, either.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful.

Okay, outside," the clerk said. "Conversation outside. Bye! Have a nice night!

I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet.

Life is tons of discipline.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.