Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

I write to find out what I think.

...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.

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.