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

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

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.

I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.

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.

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

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.