“Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going...” — Anne Tyler Quote

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.

I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.

Brains affect brains through far more means than words and listening.

My whole thing is I want to affect history in a positive way. I want the timeline to be, 100 years from now, when we look back, it's going to be like, the world was like this, and then Shameik Moore hit the world, and everything changed for the better. It was a new light. Something special.

Anybody that thought the genome was going to directly provide drugs was a fool. Biological networks are not simple, and making drugs to affect them won't be simple.

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.