I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.

I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.

Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

Not dreams but night changes, not destiny but path changes, always keep your hopes alive, luck may or may not change, but time definitely chages.