I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

I'm very disciplined, but the one thing that I have addictive behavior about is the Internet.

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around you, and it's very easy to get caught up in that stream and simply kind of keep on moving.

My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.