People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.

Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.

If you're unhappy, change something.

Give yourself time to get better.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.