When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.