I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

That dreadful alligator attack in Orlando would never have happened if Disney had put up real warning signs, like other Florida resorts do. But wild alligators don't fit the Disney image, so they were no proper warnings, and a child died for no reason.

Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.