Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash.