I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up

Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain and sorrow. Well acquainted with pain and sorrow, Stephen did not contribute to the discussion. He merely crossed these idiots off his list of possible friends.

Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.