When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

Love is random; fear is inevitable.

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.