The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.

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

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.

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

Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read!

To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.