For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.

It seems like the original 'Star Trek' could have gone on longer.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.

I always liked those characters in 'True Blood' who could turn into animals. I'd love to be an animal of some kind and run quickly through a forest.