Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

Not dreams but night changes, not destiny but path changes, always keep your hopes alive, luck may or may not change, but time definitely chages.

My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.

After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right, it's still a pleasure.

I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.