I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.

She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that quality with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.

I begin each book with a challenge to myself.

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.