Occupation: Writer Birth: December 22, 1951
The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessa….
Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives..
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shin….
Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for me: 'If there's no magic, there's no meaning.'….
I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again..
It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now..
As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the ….
"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it migh….
I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile..
It was all cheese and applause..
I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice ….
I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own wri….
Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every day whether you're feeling ins….
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of..
To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The diffe….
I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet..
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused..
Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks ….
My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as I stick with that, I'm ent….
She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in..
Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. M….