There Is Nothing Inherently Wrong About Science.

I Need To Write In A Small Room - The Smaller The Better. I Can't Write In A Big Room Where Someone Might Sneak Up Behind My Back.

When I'm Writing Fiction I'm Thinking, God, This Is So Hard - I Have To Make All This Stuff Up! I Wish I Were Writing A Nonfiction Book Where All The Facts Are Laid Out And I Don't Have To Be So Much At Sea.

We All Have A Monster Within; The Difference Is In Degree, Not In Kind.

My First Job Was Washing Dishes In The Basement Of A Nursing Home For $2.10 An Hour, And I Learned As Much About The Value Of Hard Work There As I Ever Did Later.

I Would Have To Say The Novel 'war And Peace' Influenced Me More Than Any Other Book. This Greatest Of Novels Demonstrated To Me The Enormous Power Of Literature And Fired Me Up With A Desire To Become A Writer, To Participate In What I Considered Then To Be The Greatest Of All Endeavors.