Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

You amaze me,” he said. “You think nothing exists if you can’t see it.

Even if life is great – keep it to yourself. You don’t want to tempt the devil.

And isn’t the whole point of things – beautiful things – that they connect you to some larger beauty?

Bad artists copy, good artists steal.