Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.

Death strips all men of dignity.

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.

The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

Living is a hazardous profession.

We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.