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

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.

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.

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