Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

Being the survivor stinks.

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks?

I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.