Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.

I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.

I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read 'The Dark Half,' which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read '11/22/63.'