The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant

The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant

As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the head when he sends them off to their day.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

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.