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.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.

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

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.