"A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder."
"When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off."
"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."
"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
"I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss."
"The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way."