I love the process of being alone in a room.

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.

I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right.

...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.

The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new ways to do it, with language, with structure. And so I'm always trying to do that.

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something