One thing I've found in any project is almost universally about three quarters of the way through - or maybe a little father, maybe seventh eighths on the way through - any project will explode.

Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.

When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.

Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.