There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.

Any view of things that is not strange, is false.

I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so.

He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.