He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me and pushes me through.

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book of stories, obviously, especially through big publishers.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

I quickly decided my zombies weren't really zombies. It was instead something you called people who were on this club drug, who then exhibited aggressive behaviors. And then like everyone who writes about zombies, I found it was so much fun.