I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.

I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.

I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.