If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.