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

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

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.

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.

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

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

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