Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.

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.

Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism and the good days and the joy and the passion and the great hopes you have for a book. But when you run into problems, when you get stuck or scared, you must trust that that is part of how a book comes to pass, and what you need to do is get very still and quiet because Self will tell you how to get out of a hole you've dug for yourself.

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