I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.

You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.

I get to meet writers, and I love writers.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.