Writing is a job: you must show up.

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.

Miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to.

I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.