I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.