No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.