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

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.

Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.

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

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

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