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.

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

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

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?

And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.