My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment

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

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

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.

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.

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

But I found my family. I found the right thing to do. I found the way home.