I observe a lot. I see a lot around me..

Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory..

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds..

When you can't see yourself objectively, you won't see anyone else objectively, either..

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose..

I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern..

How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?.

You love me?” … “Yes. More than life..

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book..

You can only control what you can control..

Don't talk yourself into not being you..

I live to serve. except the part about living....

We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong..

That's the thing about faith. It works..

You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on..

It is much more rewarding to do more with less..

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves..

I tend to stay away from the comics..

I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either..

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it..