When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

here in the summer desert, winter found my blood

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice of that sort. If you do, you will very likely starve trying to live on your writing income. Besides, the only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel.

The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness