An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I always think about the books I'm doing in pretty much the same way. I'm simply trying to write that particular novel as well as that particular novel can be written. I want to listen to what it is telling me, trying to figure out what it wants to do as much as what I want to do with it. There's a negotiation that's constant and ongoing between me and the material I'm working with, because I'm trying to listen to it.

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.

I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back into my imagination and just let it work, and not question it and not fret about it.

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.