Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.

They wanted them to look like the Gods. God doesn't look like this.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip.

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.