Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there, too-everyone says so-but maybe truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be you know.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

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