I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.

Predisposition is not predestination.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.