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.

Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it that I want to talk too much about the characters and that slows the story down. So I say, "Hey, people want to find out what's going to happen next, they don't want to listen to you spout off about this or that person." But I think even the bad guy deserves to tell his side of the story.

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.