When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people.

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.

Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.