Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there.

You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.

All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.