Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

The more you learn, the less you fear.

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.