"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."

"Humor is almost always a subversive element. It's a way to make people think about things they don't want to think about."

"The first duty of a novelist is to entertain. If you don't entertain, then all the deeper stuff is lost."

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

"I go out to my little office, where I've got a manuscript, and the last page I was happy with is on top. I read that, and it's like getting on a taxiway. I'm able to go through and revise it and put m…"