Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.

Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.

Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.

My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find yourself living in her universe, doing things that are completely unexpected or unimaginable for you, but you blink and you're up on a stage singing, or wearing a peculiar wig, or writing a book filled with feelings and emotion, or doing something equally as unlikely.

None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get our ideas... because we don't know.

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.