In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?

It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.

Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your words away for weeks or months–and then returning to your work to polish it some more.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.