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.

Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.

It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.

Coming over from England, I was awe-struck by what Americans do at Halloween. I find it magnificent. In England, you get the occasional fancy dress party.