I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.