Little children are all writers.

I've been astonished how often, when I convince a writer to tell a story more straightforwardly and to tell it more simply and directly, it turns out that this author is great and the story is wonderful.

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

I just like doing it, I like writing.

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

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.

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