What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back.

Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.

Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.

Parker wasn't supposed to be a series. He was supposed to be one book, and if he was only going to be in one book, I didn't worry about it. And then an editor at Pocket Books said "Write more books about him." So I didn't go back at that point and give him a first name. If I'd known he would've been a series, I would've done two things differently. First, I would've given him a first name because that means for 27 books, I've had to find some other way to say, "Parker parked the car."