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

Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.

I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

My stories are never quite good enough

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.