Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.