Charlaine Harris
The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.
People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.
Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.
If I quit having fun, then it's time for me to quit working.
I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.
If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.
I'm looking forward to coming to SleuthFest I've heard so many good things about it from my writer friends. I'm looking forward to seeing my buddies and talking to readers who want to know about the way I work.
Silver, gold - I don't discriminate! I like sparkly things.
I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.
I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.
I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.
I like the cerebral process.
Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.
Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.
Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.
For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.
Yes, I'm happy with Alan Ball's production of my novels.
I like sparkly things.
No, I won't ever write another 'Lily Bard.' I said everything I had to say about Lily.
I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.
I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.
I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and with every new novel I try to improve the process of writing.
America is obsessed with youth. We all want to look young forever, and vampires do. They are caught in their prime, if that's when they've been turned. And they'll be that way forever.
I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.
Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.Collection: Book
My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.Collection: Women
Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.Collection: Forgiveness
You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.Collection: Love
Don’t go looking for trouble; it’s already looking for you.Collection: Trouble
Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.Collection: Self
Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.Collection: Interesting
We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.Collection: Reading
I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.Collection: Life
If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better.Collection: Between You And Me
As I climbed up into the high old bed, the large fly in my personal ointment did the same. Had I actually told him he could get in bed with me? Well, I decided, as I wriggled down under the soft old sheets and the blanket and the comforter, if Eric had designs on me, I was just too tired to care. "Woman?" "Hmmm?" "What's your name?" "Sookie. Sookie Stackhouse." "Thank you, Sookie." "Welcome, Eric.Collection: Tired
You think that it’s not magic that keeps you alive? Just ‘cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn’t make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We’re all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic’s just a little different from yours, that’s all.Collection: Thinking
You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you.Collection: Humorous
I wish," I said. "I could save orgasms in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra.Collection: Thinking
Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!Collection: Secret
Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.Collection: Book
Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.Collection: Classic
It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.Collection: Relationship
I had two cups of coffee, put Eric's jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand-new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.Collection: New Year
Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.Collection: Taken
I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.Collection: Fingernails
When you've been really beaten, you realize that you are just an envelope of skin, an easily penetrated envelope that holds together a lot of fluids and some rigid structures, which in their turn can simply be broken and invaded.Collection: Broken
It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old.Collection: Years
Look, how come he showed up now? When you have other fairies in the woods? And does that sound crazy when you say it out loud, or what?Collection: Crazy
I was embarrased, horrified and absolutely ready to jump him!Collection: Ready