I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

Admiral Spartan thinks that the object must be exposed and penetrated with all possible speed.

I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know.

Get a grip on your heart and pride, girl. Nobody has or ever will give a damn whether you're happy or not.

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]

Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

Happiness means quiet nerves.