It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

I'd rather people just borrow the idea and do their own thing in their own community, ... Whenever people can just start on their own, without our imprimatur, all the better. The model works, but we don't own the patent.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.