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

I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing, and when I accepted that and found the way to do it, then I was able to write.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way

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

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

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