Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.

I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them.

You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.

I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house.

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools.

People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.

My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet.

Lycans are human.

Fight back. Bite back.

They’re always wrong in the movies.

I want to score this book 10. —KazkgbBillionaire's Indulgence #1

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

You've fought for Winter so spectacularly, and I am more proud than I have ever been to call you my son. But don't forget to fight for yourself as well--there is no shame in that

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.

That experience of being in the wild in a place where life initially began for all creatures gave me a overwhelming sense of connection.

I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.

Strengthen in us, O God, the work You have begun in us.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.