I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.
Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror
All paths lead nowhere; choose one with heart...
What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.