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 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.

If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

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.

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.