This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.

I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing.

Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books. The Great Spring and the thirtieth anniversary of Bones just came out and while I'm happy and excited about that, I've already finished a new book. That's what practice does. You don't get caught.

I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing down a river.

This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.

Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.