I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that..

He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynici….

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it..

Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think it’s easy. There’s a difference be….

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, ….

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer..

A literary achievement of the highest order..

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave..

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; h….

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me aft….

The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming..

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective.

None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we l….

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voi….

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time..

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that re….

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation..

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel respo….

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itse….

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer..

Fiction is socially meaningful..