For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.

That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.