and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.