... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.