I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.

where the world ends is where you must begin

and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max.

I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of different books. And you begin by maybe copying the style of writers that really knocked you out.

Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.

Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.

They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.