That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

You will surely be rewarded for every seed of good deed and godliness.

Keep search in sci-fi and many other places books, stories and many other stuff... Keep searching, don't stop and you will find it!

Now, games have been democratized. Everyone plays games.

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.

Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber, you go and do something like this... and totally redeem yourself!

Perhaps I’m tired of waiting for something I may never find.

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

There are no failures - only feedback.

Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.