When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

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

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

Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.