Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.