In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.

One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

I did get tired of hearing that criticism years ago. That is not a compliment. Being labeled a "beach read" is a put-down. So, I did deliberately set out to write a book, Camino Island, that would be very entertaining and compulsively readable and we published it on June 6 in time for summer vacation, hoping that people would buy it and take it to the beach.

I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.

I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.