Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your novel that will help preserve your balance. Exhaustion will affect both your writing’s quality and your productivity.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.

I’ve got...ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.