Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.
That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
Wars are begun by frightened men.