“Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to luminous chaos. Loving the power of grammar and the fine distinctions of language, I seek the part of the mind I didn't know was there, the part 'sheer,' 'no-manfathomed,' 'cliffs of fall.”

“The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and emotions have ideas and emotions more profound than the rest of us. It isn't so. The ability to express is a special gift with a special craft to support it and is spread fairly equally among the profound, the shallow, and the mediocre.”

“Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.”

“My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.”

“Don't dread. Do.”

“I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.”

“Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator."Stephanie Plum”