Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.

When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.

The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world available to him or her of people, of ideas, of experiences, of interchange of ideas...

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't believe that there's a free person in the whole world that knows how good a cup full of water can taste. Because you have to be a deprived slave, to be kept waiting for your water like we were to really appreciate how good just one swallow can be. When we finally got a drop on our tongues it was like something straight from the hands of the Almighty.