You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It’s about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.” He paused. “And then one day they forget about you, and they don’t believe in you, and they don’t sacrifice, and they don’t care, and the next thing you know you’re running a three-card monte game on the corner of Broadway and Forty-third.

I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

Dreams shape the world

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.