It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.

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.

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.

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

People forget years and remember moments.

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