No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.