I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and rarely say anything other than 'Pass the salt' or 'If you're not going to eat that, can I have it?'

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them.

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.