What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

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.

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.

I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.