I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.

I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.

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

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.

Never use a verb other than ‘said’ to carry dialogue.