One of my greatest pleasures is writing on my Web site.
There's a horrible stereotype of both the romance writer and the romance reader as somehow undereducated and unprofessional, when in fact there are a number of incredibly well-educated professional women who have chosen to leave their other careers and go into writing romance.
While I was writing 'The Last Werewolf,' I didn't watch any horror movies.
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers - Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, June Jordan, Sarah Schulman, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Christa Wolf - and much of this writing was political as well as literary.
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.
I love writing, and I think I'm kind of a workaholic. I'm happiest when I'm working.
You don't teach information in a writing workshop.
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.
Novel writing wrecks homes.
My writing process isn't a very organized thing.
The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.
My actual writing process? I have to just love the beat before I even write on it. I can't force myself to write to a beat that I'm not immediately loving.
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.