Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.

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.

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

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