I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Hope doesn't mean anything. ... Action's the only thing that counts.

I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night.

Nothing was more valuable than the printed word.

I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.