People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

Ka works and the world moves on.

You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.

By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.