The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.

If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.