In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.

I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

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.