Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.