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

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.

When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.

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

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

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.