The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you.
Like any working mother, I have to balance and manage my time very carefully. My children and husband come first, of course, then my work.
I wanted to show young people that taking a stand can be done by simply standing firm in your convictions.
The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.
When I'm not writing or working on books as a publisher, I'm doing things that make me happy. One is skiing with my kids and husband. I love sports.
I never leave home without my writing notebook, and get a lot of writing done in transit. One great place to create is while riding the subways of New York City, where I live.
The blues have hope wrapped inside them.
There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.
I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part of me that took a dark joy in gathering all the power it could and using it as I saw fit, everything else be damned. There was power to be had in hatred, too, in anger and in lust, in selfishness and in pride. And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos.
Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.
You reach your audience at the moment when you really have something to say - that is, when you're not just delivering a performance.