When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.

The best defense is a good story.

I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.

People do not read, by and large. They watch television.

Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.

If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.

I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.