run with the hunted

If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way.

Just be happy, and if you can’t be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with the people that make you happy.

Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.