you must not come lightly to the blank page.

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and you'll be happy.' I'm happy now, and that has had an effect on my life and my relationship with my wife and kids and even my friends. I've always wanted to be a writer.

I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can do it quite deeply. It really depends on the type of idea you have to begin with.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.