As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.

Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse.

Two bones fell down my chimney and into the bedroom this morning. Hysterical thing to happen to a thriller writer. Murderous ravens perhaps?

Death strips all men of dignity.

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.

The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

You must appreciate that love is the last reason for which a man marries.