I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going to.

To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money.

A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.