At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

Never is a long word.

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

To young people the future is still long.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.