I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.