I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline — combine those and you'll be pretty productive.

I hate patience. Slows everything down.

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

What was your secret?" That brought another smile. "Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance

He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that.

I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You don’t have to do or be or have experienced, traveled to, but you have to imagine all of that, very well–and believe it completely during the bubble of the work.

The wounded recognized the wounded.