Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

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

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.

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

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

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