I do not threaten, I merely advise caution.

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off.

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

I'm a stranger," pointed out Bod. "You're not," she said, definitely. "You're a little boy." And then she said, "And you're my friend. So you can't be a stranger.

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing goes out and gets published.