"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something."
"Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't."
"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."
"Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!"
"Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism."
"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."