“Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.”
“There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.”
“Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.”
“Sometimes, the inessential is essential.”
“Compared to art, all other professions are but chores.”
“To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.”