I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better

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

I remember Stephen King did a fundraiser one time with J.K. Rowling and he was very impressed with her. But we talk a lot about publishing, bookselling, and book writing. He's been around for ten years longer than me and was a bestseller right off the bat. And he's seen and done everything. It's rare to be with somebody who has been through all of that.

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

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 can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.