Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the license to write truth without being wedded to fact.

I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips from my mind, to recount those adventures if not relive them.

I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell.

One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.

I was very disciplined when home - lights out for the girls at 9:00, two hours of writing for me. It was murder on my marriage.