When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.

Are you telling me you're cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details?

Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.

[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.