The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.

When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.

It hurts to imagine stuff. It can give you a headache. Probably doesn't hurt physically, but it hurts mentally. But the more that you can do it, the more you're able to get out of it. Everybody has that capacity, but I don't think everyone develops it.

...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.