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

There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.

I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think it's how you teach yourself to write.

I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.

The form is so malleable and can do so many things.

He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.