And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

The Army was my bread and butter.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!