I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

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.

You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.

What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.

Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.

When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.