Smile. It gives your face something to do.

Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.

You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.