I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.

You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

There is no place so benighted and godforsaken that some moron won't go there on vacation. People could be living in an open sewer and swallowing dirt to stop the hunger, and there'd be a couple from Larchmont wearing comfortable shoes there to take pictures of them.

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.