But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible

I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!

I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom