If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

...[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.

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.