My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

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.

A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make a large container of espresso and just bang out a lot of words.