I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.

Don't write poems to make girls like you, because it will not make them like you but it will give them something to quote back at you later in life.

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.

I’m meeting the attic before I meet the girl.

If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then you don't really believe in it. Faith is a verb.

Kurt pick his way around testing for heat before taking each step and avoiding places where the ash was heaps up.

It's very crucial that you get your feelings out- but don't ever inflict harm on your body because your body is sacred

Photography has not invented anything.

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee.