The very dull truth is that writing love scenes is the same as writing other scenes - your job is to be fully engaged in the character's experience. ….

She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyis….

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from..

. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity..

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other..

No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from..

Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone..

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him i….

What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife, Penelope, a brilliant, reso….

I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost..

The door snicked shut..

As an author, one of the most important things I think you can do once you've written a novel is step back. When the book is out, it belongs to the r….