Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.

That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.

Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.