Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.