As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.

I worry about you Bev. I worry a lot.

I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight... I know it’s not laziness, but respect for the work, and I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.