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

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.

People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.

If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen