Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.