She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top.

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.

Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.

I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.

In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run and matters are often unjust there. The compensating for us of the universe makes all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process.