I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

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

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

I don't get in a position to be frightened. I don't do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills.