Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.

It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

...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.