The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life. That was what was so scary. You just dragged the fan up to everything you had spent the years raking together and turned the motherfucker on.

Time's the thief of memory

The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.

The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.

Nora Roberts is cool.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.