And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

It's easier to die if others around you are dying.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, worldview and thoughts.

It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.