It's A Very Bad Habit, But One

Pirate Hunters Is A Fantastic Book, An Utterly Engrossing And Satisfying Read. It Tells The Story Of The Hunt For The Rare Wreck Of A Pirate Ship, Which Had Been Captained By One Of The Most Remarkable Pirates In History. This Is A Real-life Treasure Island, Complete With Swashbuckling, Half-crazy Treasure Hunters And Vivid Caribbean Settings-a Story For The Ages.

I Would Have To Say The Novel 'war And Peace' Influenced Me More Than Any Other Book. This Greatest Of Novels Demonstrated To Me The Enormous Power Of Literature And Fired Me Up With A Desire To Become A Writer, To Participate In What I Considered Then To Be The Greatest Of All Endeavors.

I Need To Write In A Small Room - The Smaller The Better. I Can't Write In A Big Room Where Someone Might Sneak Up Behind My Back.

When I'm Writing Fiction I'm Thinking, God, This Is So Hard - I Have To Make All This Stuff Up! I Wish I Were Writing A Nonfiction Book Where All The Facts Are Laid Out And I Don't Have To Be So Much At Sea.

You Think Of Yourself As An "individual Person", With A Unique And Separate Mind. You Think You Are Born And You Think You Die. All Your Life You Feel Separate And Alone. Sometimes Desperately So. You Fear Death Because You Fear The Loss Of Individuality. All This Is An Illusion. You, He, She, Those Things Around You Living Or Not, The Stars And Galaxies, The Empty Space In Between- These Are Not Distinct, Separate Objects. All Is Fundamentally Entangled.