Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.

I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.