I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

I think Stephen King must be the most terrified person in the universe.

I was terrified of funerals.

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.