It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it that I want to talk too much about the characters and that slows the story down. So I say, "Hey, people want to find out what's going to happen next, they don't want to listen to you spout off about this or that person." But I think even the bad guy deserves to tell his side of the story.

Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically I don't think I was so different from a lot of dads who have three or four martinis when they get in from work, wine with dinner and so on.

What is writing? Writing is telepathy.

I worry about you Bev. I worry a lot.