Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

There are many more ways to be attractive than to be beautiful.

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you

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

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

You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.