Quotes About Author

You do know Chris is thoroughly fucked-up, don't you?" My reply is instant, defensive. Protective. "Aren't we all?" "Not like Chris." I don't ask how he knows. It could be the club. Maybe a friendship that once was and is now lost. It doesn't matter. "It's his imperfections that make him perfect," I reply, and there is conviction in my voice.

Sara," he repeats, his tone low, as if he was trying it out on his tongue, trying me out on his tongue.

This is one of my favorite books Lisa has ever written. You couldn't ask for a better story.

In general, comedy just isn't an environment that lends itself toward happiness.

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion or regard for you.

Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.

You wearing a thigh sheath?" "Now what would be the sense of wearing just one? I have two thighs.

PML?" I asked. "Postmortem link." All corporations had their acronyms, but SPI was a special snowflake.

Merpeople are a matriarchal society. The females hold all positions of power." I nodded in approval. "As it should be. I like Queen Sirene already.

I'm on VH1 now, will be working on ITV's This Morning again from September.

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled and stoked my senses.

I am momentarily struck silent. Clean that junk out? What kind of a Neanderthal talks about books that way?

sad majority of these kids—is that their norm is constant drama, constant escalation.

Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller

The water of grace. A sponge to thirsty lips. A trickle and then a flood. Hope.

The nanny goat is integral to Lucky Strike's healing.

Do you work at the grocery store? Then why are you checking me out?

We're doing the Twyla, not Twilight, so stop sucking!

Claire, did I invite you to my BBQ?" "No." "Then why are you up in my grill?

I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.

I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have much choice. This is the way my mind works.

The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer. Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume!