People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much.

Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time