The strong were always eating the weak.

Often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!

I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction.

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'