Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.

The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the bills.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

One day you'll have a quiet heart.

I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.