Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.

When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.

Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

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

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