Inspiration is an empty bank account.

Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.