We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.

Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

When you understand what you’re truly worth, who is going to be able to make you feel worthless? No one.

I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they've ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn't know, because I won't ever dare ask that question.

I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of.

What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.