I've always had a certain facility with words.

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write, and there are very few of them.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal in eloquent and evocative prose. Alas, Frey's writing suggests that this was not an option, and he came up with something else.