I'm always reading. Here's where an ebook reader really comes into its own. When I travel, it allows me to carry a huge chunk of my library with me. Usually, when I am writing one project, I am researching the next or beginning to pull together the material for the book after that.

You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feelings through their skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk.

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.

And once begun, change cannot be reversed.

we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences