A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

“The color white is the absence of memory.”

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out b…”

“You know," Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early li…”

“Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.”