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

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.

There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.

Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.

I only get writer's block about once a day.