Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

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

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.

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.

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.