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

Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

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.

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

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.

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.

I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate on an esoteric piece of math, how can you think about the rest of your life? That's why people can leave their car keys in the gutter; they're in the midst of obsession and concentration.