If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing.

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing.

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

The more I hung out with detective squads, the more there was always one guy or two guys or a woman who had a case that they were the primary on years ago, it was never solved, and they take that case into their retirements.

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

As the industry has matured, real estate has become a very accepted investment. Institutions have used core investments to get comfortable with real estate as an asset class, and now that they're comfortable they're moving up the risk spectrum.