Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.

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

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.

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

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.