It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.

I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.

If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't... well, I'm in my fifties now, and there are a lot of books out there. I don't have time to waste with the poorly written ones.

The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.