Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you.

Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive.