There is no particular source my stories come from. The stories always seem to be there waiting for me, though sometimes shrouded in mist and fog.

As a writer I am proud that if you took my last four books, and they didn't have my name on them, I don't think readers would know they were by the same author.

Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.

There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.

We learn better when learning is a game.

Everything we do and think has consequences and everything is connected by this web and has a meaning. When we touch the web on one side of the world, it ripples through it to the other - and so on.

The bottle of red brush on a white table gleamed throughout the remaining years of my childhood as the sign of what was possible there.

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.

I love seeing strong-willed women inspire little girls. I hope someday some new artist will say 'I was inspired by the Dixie Chicks.

I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

I finally realized the source of your mutual attraction," Saiman said, his voice dry. "You both think violence is foreplay.

Anyone who's ever had the misfortune of seeing me interact with house pets knows I have a wickedly strong paternal instinct bordering on the maternal.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.