Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone.

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.

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

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

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