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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

A book's flaws make it less predictable.

As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.

Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.