I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.

Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don't get to hear the person's voice; you don't get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of a case study: numbers, examples, anecdotes, maybe a paragraph here, and that's about it.

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.