Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.