Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

Everybody should customize their names.

The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.

Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures of Paradise. Paradise is not a story. It's about what happens when the stories are over.

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.