Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.

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

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

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