When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful memories, the regrets may be fewer but stand out more prominently, glowing coals that we can never quite extinguish, try though we might

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.