I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.

He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")