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

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

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

I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New York Times article on the subject of modern attitudes toward our slave-holding past, the writer noted that we all want to be from "innocent origins." I _know_ I'm not. Then again, I suspect most of us are not.

There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.

I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series.

it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.