Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.

We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.

I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.

There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.

I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story.

It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.