Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

Dream big but think small.

I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale.

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.

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.

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.