Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

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• Patricia Briggs:

  The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural

• Patricia Briggs:

  When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader

• Patricia Briggs:

  The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm

• Patricia Briggs:

  When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

• Patricia Briggs:

  My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern a

• Patricia Briggs:

  I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head

• Patricia Cornwell:

  On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing

• Patricia Cornwell:

  Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played th

• Patricia Cornwell:

  Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

• Patricia Cornwell:

  I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.