I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you

Religion does not care about your purpose or determination

Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born.

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

I never want to think or write about the topic again when I'm finished with it.

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get.

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?