A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

The kind of person I find myself interested in is a cross between being very emotionally complex and very immature. That's what I felt I was like when I was younger.

Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books.

It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself.