Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.

Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.