The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

I'm not happy with just repeating myself.

I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a lens has its focal length, the novel also has its best distance from the action.

People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.

I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.

You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.