I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of police. Hanging with two major-league losers." She slapped my back. "Welcome to high school.

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song

"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely."

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.