The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University