Why Pretend To Be Something You're Not?

If You Are Ever Completely Satisfied With Something You Have Written, You Are Setting Your Sights Too Low. But If You Can't Let Go Of Your Material Even After You Have Done The Best That You Can With It, You Are Setting Your Sights Too High.

Fiction Writers Are Strange Beasts. They Are, Like All Writers, Observers First And Foremost. Everything That Happens To And Around Them Is Potential Material For A Story, And They Look At It That Way.

I Think I Make Better Use Of Language And Imagery Than When I Started Out.

Anyway, Several Rewrites Later, Del Rey Books Did Publish My First Novel, And It Did Become The First Work Of Fiction On The New York Times Trade Paperback Bestseller List.

I Want You, As A Reader, To Experience What I Experience, To Let That Other World, That Imaginary World That I Have Created, Tell You Things About The Real World.