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

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

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