For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.

Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.

How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.

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

Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.