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Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me, the first thing I'll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh.

Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.