I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.

We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

A good book is a good book. End of story.

I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.

We always find something good out of the book.