. . . my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
. . . bookstores, libraries. . . they're the closest thing I have to a church.
Bullying is not okay. Period.
Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.
Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.
I've found that there's a pretty wide range of silly. I don't want to do outright parody, because I like keeping my own characters and stories at the core of the books. And to be honest, I'm not smart enough to do the kind of wickedly sharp satire you get from someone like Pratchett.
If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly
Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.
America's companies are built to destroy creativity.
I really relate to outsider characters. Especially the eccentric, lunatic weirdos like Alfred Hitchcock, Viktor Navorski in The Terminal, or the Anvil guys. Everything I've done is about these quite eccentric, exotic outsiders who you might see in a certain light at first, but once you scratch the surface a little, you realize that they're not that different from you. I think there's an element of that which unites.
A golfer should never make a mental mistake because the ball is just sitting there waiting for you to hit it.