I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.

I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.

The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.

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