I'm also looking forward to Pat Conroy and Tim O'Brien. They have been some of my favorite writers.

It's great to see that many people interested. In school, a bunch of the writers (mentioned here) -- you don't hear as much about.

Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.