Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.

If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.

Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.

There’s always someone who knows something.

The truth is in the details.

I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.