I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex - a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when it tramples houses... I started out as a storyteller; along the way I became an economic force.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.

Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.