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.

Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going to.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.