I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

How can you stop writing?