The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.

When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!

Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.

Anger is a wasted emotion.

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.