Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book..

What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a gift. Look around you. What assis….

One must as willingly be nothing, as something..

It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance and history, and to establish….

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books..

I like to do something I fear..

A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly ….

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of..

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer.

A catless writer is almost inconceivable..

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular..

If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you….

I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken..

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example..

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed..

I don’t work. I merely inflict myself on the public..

To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living.

I've been right more than I've been wrong..

Your life isn't out of control. It's expanded..

You learn so much with each book, but it's what you teach yourself by writing your own books and by reading good books written by other people - that….

Don't be afraid to question. Don't be afraid to get fired. Don't be afraid to be wrong..