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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.