I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, almost neurological phenomenon, and the words seem to generate more words - but only when you're writing. You can't do it in your head.

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

There are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when I'm not.