Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.