Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.