Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared. ”

I certainly don't consider myself famous. ”

If there is one thing I have learnt, it's that you have to be honest. ”

I remember reading about the Marie Celeste when I was a kid and becoming obsessed with what happened. ”

Your character is always right. No real person thinks they're being stupid or misguided or bigoted or evil or just plain wrong - so your characters can't, either. ”

If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's. ”

When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears. ”

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation. ”

I've always seen places as being very deeply connected to the experience that people have in those places. I think that probably comes through very much in my books. ”

I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement. ”