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

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

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.

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

High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins. Or, Arnold is pregnant.

You have to be an outsider to write.

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