“Writing stories is like making love.” – June Gillam

“When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time.” – Lady Gaga

“I have an idea and a first line – and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some idea of how long it’s going to be – but not what will happen or what the themes will be. That’s the intrigue of doing it – it’s a process of discovery. You get to discover what you’re going to say and what it’s going to mean.” – T.C. Boyle

“If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.” – Truman Capote

“…I live through my characters; experiencing every detail of their story as it unfolds gradually and personally within my own creative psyche. I’m like a cat with untold lives, because each new book is my rebirth.” – Richelle E. Goodrich