A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

I'm never going to be a Tom Clancy. And I wouldn't really want to be - not that I have anything against him, and I wish him continued success - because that's not why I'm writing novels. I'm doing it because I have to. I feel like I have to, anyway.

I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.

Bina rolls her eyes, hands on her hips, glances at the door. Then she comes over and drops her bag and plops down beside him. How many times, he wonders, can she have enough of him, already, and still have not quite enough?