I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

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I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're...

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're...

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but...

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but...

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your...

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your...

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear...

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear...

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I...

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I...

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than...

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than...

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians...

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians...

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no...

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no...

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled....

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled....

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil...

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil...

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to...

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to...

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not...

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not...

I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it...

I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it...

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because...

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because...

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud....

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud....

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking...

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking...

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.