Writing is a job: you must show up.

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

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

Writing is a job: you must show up.

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.