What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.