"Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good."
"I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all."
"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."
"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."