I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

Always accepting the greatest joy of all is the time that I get to spend with my wife.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

I work seven days a week and I work about 12 hours a day, from the beginning of September to about the end of May; the school year. I take two days off, Christmas and New Year's, Thanksgiving sometimes - two and a half. And the result is that I bonded myself to my desk.

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.