A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in a draft stage and that before it can leave the writer's hands and head to a publisher, it needs about five more revisions. Some people don't want to do that.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone' book so the hard part is making it a book that at least ten other people want to pay for to read.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.