All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?

Teaching other people to write is not something I can do. The only kind of advice I can give them will be trite by its nature. Of course, read a lot, write a lot. The kind of advice I wish I had been given is all of a practical nature, having to do with publishers and agents.

You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.

Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.

Jimmy had been full of himself back then, thinks Snowman with indulgence and a little envy. He’d been unhappy too, of course. It went without saying, his unhappiness. He’d put a lot of energy into it.

Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine.