The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

The most beautiful women in the world were African.