For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.