“I love you all for bearing with me, whether I was asking your opinion on the best sources to base the magic in the book off of, hearing your suggestions on wording, or having an argument with you o...”

“[Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was.”

“But I've learned now that your hard work and dedication will pay off, if you dare to be different. Because why would I want to be anything other than myself?”

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in that chair until words are written, or you're going to give up and walk away. The ...”

“When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”

“Im likely to stay here, pen in hand, until dusk comes and my writing melts into the twilight.”

“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.”

“Everyone is running from something. But if were lucky, really lucky, fate intervenes and presents an opportunity to conquer our fears. Only then, if triumphant, can a destiny bestowed become a dest...”

“A pen name is a nickname.”

“My job as a writer is simple. Write a book Im proud of, and present it as a gift to the world. Some will love it.Some will hate it.Thats the nature of art.”

“My job as a writer is simple.Write a book Im proud of,and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.Thats the nature of art.”

“I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and bec...”