I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

Love side, hate side, never in between

I am the expert on battery life.

It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

Remember those wonderful moments you have had. Sit and be with it. In that very memory your entire Being gets back to that state

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?