Kelley Armstrong Quotes

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don’t want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

It wasn’t until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

Never go easy on allies if you ahve to take them down. Especially allies. You’re already fighting the urge not to hurt them. Counteract that and hit them with everything you’ve got.

I don’t read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

It’s because when we sneeze, our soul flies out our nose and if no one says ‘bless you,’ the devil can snatch it.

Even in horror novels where you know most characters aren’t going to make it to the end, it’s crucial to have fully fleshed-out characters. If you don’t do that, the reader doesn’t care what happens to them.

You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.

There is no story that can’t be improved by adding zombies.

So consider your options, make your choice and call me home.

I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.

Kids who don’t eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of storytelling.

Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented.

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he’s telling me I don’t have to let him make me feel stupid.

I’ve spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they’re unrecognizable.

He was trying to tell me something.’ Derek snorted. ‘Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

That’s what we all want, isn’t it? Power without price.

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn’t just spring to life at age thirty.

Remembering. Forgetting. I’m not sure which is worse.

Young writers need to be encouraged to write – just write – with no restrictions on form, style or content.

If you say ‘we’re in this together,’ I’m going to hurl.

One of the first lessons a necromancer learns is the art of playing dumb. Of course, one problem with playing dumb is that is seeps into your everyday life. ~Jaime Vegas