There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out. I'm just telling a story.

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

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.

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.