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I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.

I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.

Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.

There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

When I do my best work, the stories tend to be pretty emotionally-charged.

I like all kinds of stories, and I usually work on several stories at once. When I run out of gas on one, I start work on the other.