Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, youll reap the same rewards.

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean

We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.

If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.