Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she asseverated" and had to stop reading and go to the dictionary.

I don't believe in writer's block. I don't know what that is. There are just certain little areas that I know I'm going to get through. It's just a matter of finding a way.

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

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

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.