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.

Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don't they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad—

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.