When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.

I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.

So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.

The day you stop learning is the day you begin to die. Lack of knowledge is the fundamental principle for killing "alive and kicking" dreams.

The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.

His work was defined by emphasis on the subversiveness philosophy, which asks questions, as opposed to the self-satisfaction of politics, which believes it has answers and insists on them.

You have to find something you relate to in every character.

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.