My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet.

I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them.

Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.

You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.

I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house.

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools.

People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.

Lycans are human.

Fight back. Bite back.

They’re always wrong in the movies.

Even a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day.

I know you do not think very highly of me, but in some circles, I'm quite the thing.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.

Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.

... and that's why I kicked your leg out of your leg!

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.