Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.

Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

She doesn't quite chop his head off.She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

I fix the cramped, lined pageswith my curious stare. How do youcome to exist?

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.

I earn the magic of words by writing.I learn the myth of worlds by imagining.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

You’ll drown in my love story, if I ever write it using a fountain pen.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.

I go silent so I can write. When my tongue is wagging my fingers are silent.