Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

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.

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.

If there is no way out, the best course of action is to find a way further in.

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.

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.