The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.

You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters interesting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.