I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out. I'm just telling a story.

I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out. I'm just telling a story.

Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.