So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design.

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.

The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.

The appeal of writing a romance was that I'd never written one before the The Thorn and The Blossom.

I loved writing something I'd never written before, and I wanted to write not just about "true love" but also a human relationship.

I actually pushed the boundaries on how long a book like this [The Thorn and the Blossom] can be. The original plan called for two 7,500 word stories, and I turned in two 10,000 word stories.

I've heard some readers saying they wished the story was longer, and I completely understand that desire - we all like to sink into a nice, long novel.

It's appropriate to have magic in a love story, because magic is a sort of metaphor for what love feels like? When we fall in love, the world feels magical to us. It becomes an enchanted place.

How I describe myself??I guy who likes to be in state of confuse, being confuse makes me incredible in thinking!

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

Whoever prefers Allah to all others, Allah will prefer him to others.

We tend to get in life what we are willing to tolerate.

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

The Baltic countries are sovereign nations. They have the right to decide which military and political bloc they want to be a part of.

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill.

Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.