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

Can't complain because nobody listens.

I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control.