I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.

When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it. A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1.

There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.