Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.

Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, The Magic Monkey - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us texture. You can scrape all you want, you can, if you have money, hire someone else to scrape, but the barnacles will come back or at least leave a blemish on the steel.