live your life as if you may lose everything.

I certainly understand very much what it's (like when) an expense comes up and you're trying to figure out how to pay for it.

live your life as if you may lose everything.

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.