If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice.

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.

If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.