It is always possible to improve..

Downstream is always someone else's up..

I don't say any word that I don't approve..

Telling someone they're wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what's right..

And yet, she knew she could be..

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath..

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium..

Love. Resoundingly and absolutely..

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause..

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong..

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia..

Im always trolling for trivia..

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat..

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow..

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published..

We're extremely young and have the potential to be anything that we want to be..

The superman exists and he's American..

I don't really see myself as famous..

By nature I'm not a brooder..

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted..

I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public..