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"The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die."
"Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up."
"I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish."
"I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts."
"Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life."
"I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down."
"If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone"
"because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself."
"I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't."
"There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart."
"When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as a listener, and Revival gave me a way to write about rock and roll without being preachy or boring."
"Even when love isn't enough...somehow it is."
"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."
"The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising."
"The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music."
"If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day."
"Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters."
"My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind."
"But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do."
"I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don’t want more things. If I want other stuff - movies, TV shows, weather forecasts, the forthcoming Josh Ritter album - I have my Mac."