You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
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?'
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7
Most people like a little sex in their novels.
Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.
There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.