Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there's a purpose.

Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.