Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd really like to go out with her.' But you can't. At least not until the old idea is finished.

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all.

Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?

Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes. It falls upon her. Love is like dying.

A product can be quickly outdated, but a successful brand is timeless.

It is the tale, not he who tells it.