I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.

I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.

The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.