One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.

Because that's what heaven is...it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.

Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.

It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.