Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.

Im always trolling for trivia.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.