...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.

Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.