The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right.

Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility.

You will not read voice on the page; you will hear it in your head.

The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.

We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page.

You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master.