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.

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.

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.

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

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