[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King or go with the small presses where there is no money. I was lucky to have been in the right place and time for many years.

[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.

Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.